[Sarajevo]

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger on Thursday urged the U.S. government to provide another $25 billion in loans to struggling U.S. automakers so that they can meet their health care obligations to over 780,000 retirees and their dependents

Oh, RIGHT............... we need to bail out the Unions because they pad their own pockets and screw hte blue collar workers- I say BS. Let them rot.

[Fred]

The unions should pay for the bailout. These commies spent over 400 million dollars to get Obozo elected and all the lying thieving DIMS. So this DIM majority congress is bought and paid for by the unions.

the big three need to go find their own funding it cannot be from the federal gov’t, they are using their own credit lines at this time TOO FRIGGIN BAD!!! I have to use my own credit line too, suck it up. They need to make it happen on their own, one of these useless banks that were bailout should be lending to them, but they won’t because it would be a bad business move. DUHHH. So the sucker middle class gets stuck with the bill.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

I disagree that the unions “pad their own pockets and screw the blue collar workers”. That does happen sometime and it is wrong. My main complaint with the unions is they create these huge give-away programs - vacation days, sick days, health care for life, family leave days, etc. Then, when there isn't enough money to pay for these benefits, we are supposed to bail them out. It is like it never occurs to them that maybe they are getting too much. Sorry, cut the benefits and the bull..it work structure that leads to ridiculously low productivity.