"Our industry needs a bridge to span the financial chasm that has opened up before us."
In everyday speak, that means: “We screwed ourselves. We can't manage anything. Save us, please, so that we might do it all over again .”
There is simply nothing to come from injecting billions of taxpayer dollars into one - or maybe all - of the Big Three auto makers, save for a quick, feel-good, “at least we did something,” temporary fix. It’s like buying a recovering cocaine addict some heroine to relieve him of his dependency with cash stolen from the rehab center’s safe.
“It’s all about the union.”
Exactly
Watching the inability of legislators to rid the public of Prevailing Wage laws I don’t see the UAW being abandoned now.
Even most Republicans are cowards in opposing unions