Posted on 12/13/2008 8:30:53 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
When they’re finished trashing Senate Republicans, they’ll commence to blaming Dan Quayle and his buds for ruining America! ... ooops already in progress.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148341/posts
Or they’ll blame Sarah Palin for causing the arson fire to her church. Wag the dog.
In 1973 the US textile and apparel industry employed 2.4 million people. That workforce dropped to 650,000 in 2005. From 1994 to 2005 alone, over 900,000 US textile and apparel workers lost their jobs. Displaced textile and apparel workers are primarily female, nonunion, and live in rural areas of the southeastern United States. The economic impact of the decline of the textile and apparel industry has been devastating for many rural communities in the south. In North Carolina alone 871 textile and apparel factories have closed since 1996.
The “free trade” policies of globalization have destroyed a once thriving industry. The lost jobs in the textile industry represented a key pathway to the middle class for undereducated and poor residents of the rural South.
Interesting there were no cries in Congress and the media to fund bailouts for the textile industry. Could it be the the lack of concern about these workers was related to the fact they were primarily female, nonunion, and lived in the South?
*****Oh oh! There goes all those UAW votes that normally go to Repubs. All 3 of them.*****
LOL Yes
Bush will give them the money anyway. He can’t help himself, he has to spend money.
Problems Jennifer?
Try your usual trick and just raise taxes. Take your usual graft and kickbacks then give what’s left to the auto makers.
Why doesn’t Michigan lend them the money?
I’m invoking the “hh why-should-I-care” rule. The management and workers depend on the automakers for their livelihood. They apparently haven’t cared enough to reform their company to create a sustainable business model.
Why should I care more than the employees of the automakers?
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The Michigan Canadian has a short memory. Michigan has been a recession for at least the last five years under her careful stewardship.
Can Dick Posthumus be elected posthumusly?
FWIW Ford is already claiming in a recent company PDF that they are at $53/hr total compensation with a mix of old workers and new ones with the lower rate. So they are on the road to the magical Toyota number of $48.
What Corker did was force the issue while G-Finger wanted negotiations. Corker would have in fact either had the Senate or the Auto Czar acting more like a bankrupcty Judge more than anything and the UAW didn't want to go their.
Shame on the UAW IMHO. They are like someone that has been told they need a serious surgery and if not, they will die in a matter of weeks. Yet they stonewall.
Out of the box thinking, and maybe not an option for the CIC, but getting all parties involved @ Camp Daivid to hammer it out before X-Mas would have done it for me. If it is so important to them, miss the Holiday. Their is a young Service Man and Women who will be on post all over the world on X-Mas, if they can do it so can the rest of these folks. Just MHO.....
Pfizer has pretty much closed up the Ann Arbor Facility and a 1 billion dollar campus sits almost Idle, maybe the U of M will take it as a Northern Campus Extension.
Comerica Bank moved their HQ to Texas.
She dragged her feet in asking one of the most corrupt Mayors in History to resign, i.e. Kawame Kilpatrick.
Her and the Legislatures Tax Reform has been a disaster for small business. My CPA "gnomes" have told me horror stories you wouldn't believe.
It is either Detroit or Wayne County has 62,000 vacant homes, not to mention a Sunday Newspaper with Forclosure notices in last weeks edition that had more sections than the paper itself.
The opinion of a high placed friend of a "gnome" thinks the real-estate market will never rebound here ( and maybe elsewhere).
Yikes! My heart goes out to those solid hard working people up there who have to support the free loaders that vote that woman back in.
“Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm used pugilistic imagery Friday, reacting to Senate Republicans who failed to support a $14 billion bailout for U.S. automakers.”
Should read;
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm used pugilistic imagery Friday, reacting to Senate Republicans who failed to support a $14 billion bailout for the United Auto Workers union.
What about the 9 dims that voted against, didnt vote or quit the senate prematurely./bingo, omega4179.
Hey, Gov. Grandmole, no worries. You promised Michigan that we'd be "blown away."
Rad-lib CINO Granholm can kindly talk a very long walk off a very short pier. A buddy of mine lives in MI and says she’s made a messed up state even worse during her tenure.
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