A Simple Explanation On The Bailout!
I can't believe how busy I've been this Christmas season! And that's in spite of a broken foot! Finally getting the gawd-awful boot off my foot today....FINALLY! I'm busy baking Christmas cookies to share with friends and neighbors, but have to take time out to give you a simple explanation on the Big Three bail-out madness.
We all know it's more complicated than that! In fact, much of it you can lay at the door of Congress, and the UAW! I've ranted often in this venue how destructive unions have been to America. I know because they killed both my father and my brother! Unions suck the life out of their workers, and productivity out of American industry. Then along comes congress with their demands that we never go drill our own oil, and therefore should make hybrid pieces of junk that Americans won't buy! There. Was that simple enough?
We all know it's more complicated than that! In fact, much of it you can lay at the door of Congress, and the UAW! I've ranted often in this venue how destructive unions have been to America. I know because they killed both my father and my brother! Unions suck the life out of their workers, and productivity out of American industry. Then along comes congress with their demands that we never go drill our own oil, and therefore should make hybrid pieces of junk that Americans won't buy! There. Was that simple enough?
Sorry to hear about your foot. Car and Driver had this great post on the bailout. http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/car_shopping/latest_news_reviews/10_lies_pinhead_legislators_believe_about_the_auto_industry_car_news?cid=327
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Rancher, thanks for the link. I said the same in less words, but their numbers are very telling, something the media refuses to look at! Interesting? NO! Shameful. Sean's right, journalism died in 2008!
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while the union did indeed stress my father out. I lived with him and know from personal experience he loved the work he did there for the workers. The union didn't stress him out so much as dealing with management dick heads.. and the Union didn't kill him.
He drank over a twelve pack a day for years and smoked three packs of cigs and had smoke inhalation from TWO fires that seared his lungs. That is what killed my father. But truth be told it was his drinking that killed him causing vericose veins in his neck so the lung problems when he coughed caused such to rupture and that caused his death. Says so right on his death certificate.
He loved his Union and the work he did there mattered to him and his coworkers. If it hadn't been for their union and my father's hard work they wouldn't have had the raises they had and the benefits they had.
To say anything less is disrespectful to him and to his memory.
If you ever knew my father at all you'd know that about him.
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Someday when you have grandchildren, plural, you and I can have a visit about the very last long conversation my brother, your father, and I had before his death.
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Hi! I'm so glad to hear you are doing better!
Take care!
Mother of Jeremy Smith
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