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To: DieHard the Hunter
What alternatives does Bush realistically have to doing some sort of bail-out?

The Corker plan, in the Senate.

The UAW can agree any time they want.

344 posted on 12/12/2008 11:26:09 AM PST by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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To: gogeo

> The UAW can agree any time they want.

The impression that I get from New Zealand is that most of your large unions in the US run very close to the wind, just a razor-thin distance away from being racketeering influenced criminal enterprises. I do not know if this is a fair assessment, but it is the impression that they give.

The other impression I get is that the union bosses probably have never actually worked on the assembly lines themselves, or done an honest day’s work in their lives. They are sorta like the pigs in Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. The days of the courageous union-organizing shop floor steward who shuts down his drill press and goes on strike for fair wages are long, long gone. Again, I don’t know if that is a fair assessment either.

The distinct impression I get is that the UAW would be quite OK with running the Big 3 into the ground: they’d just go infect another business. Sorta like varroa mites on busy honeybee hives.

How close to accurate are these observations from halfway ‘round the world?


354 posted on 12/12/2008 1:17:26 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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