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I say we begin an email blitz pointing to the articles (such as this one from IBD Editorials) describing what the fraudulent and criminal UAW is doing and start petitions to get the money given to the Big Three be called and force bankruptcy! It's an OUTRAGE that we paid $17B based on promises we knew they had no intention of honoring but for them to come right out and say it to the face of the American people is unthinkable!
DO NOT BUY ANOTHER THING FROM ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE U.A.W. EVER AGAIN PEOPLE!
It's time to wake up and realize that we will lose these millions of jobs. It's done. It's inevitable. Americans need to wake up and realize this! We will have to deal with it. The U.S. economy will have to absorb it. It doesn't matter if it's now or 3 months from now or late next year. IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. So, if our government and all of our elected officials WILL NOT LISTEN TO US, then we need to take action into our own hands. BUY NOTHING FROM THE BIG THREE!
IT'S THAT SIMPLE! PASS THIS ALONG TO EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!
Friday, December 26, 2008
What a crock (click to see article)
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. But the UAW issued a statement before the ink had dried on the bailout bill that Bush agreed to pay (you know the one which would pay the big three $17.4B provided the management AND the UAW make significant concessions to reduce costs and prove 'viability') saying they WILL NOT make ANY CONCESSIONS!
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND THERE IS NO WAY, NO F-ING WAY they should get the money! F-'em! That's it! Done! Fend for yourselves. Die. It's going to happen anyway. How arrogant do you have to be? Grovel and plead for money, promise you'll do what is asked to get the money and then once it's in your hands spit on the donor. The U.S. Government. No, the U.S. taxpayer.
This now leads me to another post to come next.......
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE AND THERE IS NO WAY, NO F-ING WAY they should get the money! F-'em! That's it! Done! Fend for yourselves. Die. It's going to happen anyway. How arrogant do you have to be? Grovel and plead for money, promise you'll do what is asked to get the money and then once it's in your hands spit on the donor. The U.S. Government. No, the U.S. taxpayer.
This now leads me to another post to come next.......
Friday, December 12, 2008
Scandal after scandal (click for article)
Well, this one seems it might be a little more troublesome for Obama. The House Ethics Committee has been investigating Charlie Rangel (head of the House Ways and Means Committee) for some time, continues to find more and more damaging scandals regarding him. Obama won't be able to distance himself from this one as easily.
UAW 'was willing to work with everybody' my a$$! (click for article)
I love how this 'debate' about whether to pass a bailout for the big three and now the failure to get the bill passed in the Senate is being blamed on the Republicans in Congress. Of course the Democrats are going to blame the Republicans, but it sickens me because the MSM will tell the nation just that and the sheep of the nation will believe it. The real problem is that the UAW was unwilling to bend. Oh yeah, but Gettlefinger (UAW President) says they were ambushed in a trap and that they were willing to work with everybody to get this bailout passed when the fact is that they would not budge on wage concessions. Wage concessions that would put big three wages in line with the other automakers in this country. They wouldn't do it. This is what the unions in this country have done. Demanding higher and higher wages and compensation for increasingly lower quality work and lost productivity. THEY ARE A BIG PART OF WHAT'S KILLING THIS COUNTRY! Wake up people!
The big three (or two, if you count Ford out, since they weren't asking for help right now) can continue to operate while undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And I'm sorry, companies in this country have done this for ever and we've always survived. Even big companies. And if you make the deal and the promise of service strong enough, people will still buy cars, because we will need cars and if we can believe we'll get a good car at a good price with service and warranties behind it, people will buy their cars.
I'm tired of hearing about the numbers of lost jobs. WE ARE GOING TO SEE THOSE LOST JOBS ANYHOW! So what if we give them billions of dollars, we'll just see it in 12 months instead of now. Either way, their flawed business practices and the strength of the unions will mean that this will still happen. Either way we'll have hundreds of thousands of workers out of work. If the economy begins to recover, those workers will end up at Honda or Toyota or Nissan as those companies expand in the vacuum left behind by the big three. THIS IS HOW CAPITALISM WORKS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT STAYS OUT OF IT!
See also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122903816924599853.html
The big three (or two, if you count Ford out, since they weren't asking for help right now) can continue to operate while undergoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And I'm sorry, companies in this country have done this for ever and we've always survived. Even big companies. And if you make the deal and the promise of service strong enough, people will still buy cars, because we will need cars and if we can believe we'll get a good car at a good price with service and warranties behind it, people will buy their cars.
I'm tired of hearing about the numbers of lost jobs. WE ARE GOING TO SEE THOSE LOST JOBS ANYHOW! So what if we give them billions of dollars, we'll just see it in 12 months instead of now. Either way, their flawed business practices and the strength of the unions will mean that this will still happen. Either way we'll have hundreds of thousands of workers out of work. If the economy begins to recover, those workers will end up at Honda or Toyota or Nissan as those companies expand in the vacuum left behind by the big three. THIS IS HOW CAPITALISM WORKS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT STAYS OUT OF IT!
See also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122903816924599853.html
Thursday, December 11, 2008
An interesting and fun week!
This week has been an interesting one, no?
The Governor of Illinois (who is just a governor, not affiliated with any political party that might look bad if the main stream media stated that he was in fact a Democrat from the same machine of dirty politics our next president hails from) is about to be impeached and Obama has never spoken to him, barely knows him, he’s just a guy on his street. It will be interesting to see all of the hurdles politicians across the nation go through to keep the information on those tapes from getting out, or how to spin it once it does get out.
Secondly, it was 30 degrees in Texas and it snowed enough to coat the streets in Houston this week. This hasn’t happened since 1944 and not before that since 1890-something. The planet is definitely warming, though, right? According to a Fox report by Brit Hume last night the number of dissenting scientists in the world is now up to 650 (up 200 from last year) including some from the U.N.’s council set up to study it and whom previously found in favor of global warming. One reported that now that he isn’t getting any grant money and isn’t affiliated with any company or organization benefiting from the global warming craze, he can now state how he really feels and what he really knows about global warming which is that it is not just a hoax, but a global conspiracy created by the U.N. and proliferated by profiteers and power-seekers across the globe to control every economy in the world.
And finally, in opposition to the passing of “Prop8” in California gay rights proponents sponsored, yesterday, a stay home from work day if you’re gay. Some are upset that they didn’t get paid for the lost work. They felt that since it was for a cause they believe in they should not be treated any different. Seems that anytime in history when a person has decided to stage a public protest, there has always been a price to pay. You can do it, but it has repercussions. If you staged a sit-in and interrupted civic activity (i.e. blocked a public street for instance) you could get arrested. It’s the price you pay. What I find funny is what about all those people in California who aren’t gay, who unbeknownst to them, stayed home yesterday and now their friends, co-workers and employers are wondering if they are gay! Reminds me of something the “alternative lifestyles council” did when I was at Slippery Rock University. The night before the ‘event’ (a Thursday) they went out and wrote with chalk on all the sidewalks around the main part of the campus that if you wore blue jeans the next day, on Thursday, you supported alternative lifestyles. They counted the number of people they saw wearing jeans and wrote up stories in the college newspaper that Slippery Rock was a very progressive university. Many went back to their rooms and changed into sweats when they read the sidewalks.
The Governor of Illinois (who is just a governor, not affiliated with any political party that might look bad if the main stream media stated that he was in fact a Democrat from the same machine of dirty politics our next president hails from) is about to be impeached and Obama has never spoken to him, barely knows him, he’s just a guy on his street. It will be interesting to see all of the hurdles politicians across the nation go through to keep the information on those tapes from getting out, or how to spin it once it does get out.
Secondly, it was 30 degrees in Texas and it snowed enough to coat the streets in Houston this week. This hasn’t happened since 1944 and not before that since 1890-something. The planet is definitely warming, though, right? According to a Fox report by Brit Hume last night the number of dissenting scientists in the world is now up to 650 (up 200 from last year) including some from the U.N.’s council set up to study it and whom previously found in favor of global warming. One reported that now that he isn’t getting any grant money and isn’t affiliated with any company or organization benefiting from the global warming craze, he can now state how he really feels and what he really knows about global warming which is that it is not just a hoax, but a global conspiracy created by the U.N. and proliferated by profiteers and power-seekers across the globe to control every economy in the world.
And finally, in opposition to the passing of “Prop8” in California gay rights proponents sponsored, yesterday, a stay home from work day if you’re gay. Some are upset that they didn’t get paid for the lost work. They felt that since it was for a cause they believe in they should not be treated any different. Seems that anytime in history when a person has decided to stage a public protest, there has always been a price to pay. You can do it, but it has repercussions. If you staged a sit-in and interrupted civic activity (i.e. blocked a public street for instance) you could get arrested. It’s the price you pay. What I find funny is what about all those people in California who aren’t gay, who unbeknownst to them, stayed home yesterday and now their friends, co-workers and employers are wondering if they are gay! Reminds me of something the “alternative lifestyles council” did when I was at Slippery Rock University. The night before the ‘event’ (a Thursday) they went out and wrote with chalk on all the sidewalks around the main part of the campus that if you wore blue jeans the next day, on Thursday, you supported alternative lifestyles. They counted the number of people they saw wearing jeans and wrote up stories in the college newspaper that Slippery Rock was a very progressive university. Many went back to their rooms and changed into sweats when they read the sidewalks.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Bailouts 2008
I don't know about you, but when I hear the word "bailout" it just smacks of what's wrong with this country, from our kids getting money handed to them without learning they have to provide a service (do a chore, for instance), to our congress using scare tactics to preserve their precious union supporters/interests by providing bailouts. Major industries have failed in this country before and we've always managed to remain standing. Studebaker, Willys, Nash, Tucker and Duesenburg automakers come to mind. For an exhaustive list see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_United_States_automobile_manufacturers. When a company fails in this country, other companies take up the slack and benefit. Ask yourself why do the Japanese automakers seem to be doing just fine? Honda is still planning on building another plant in 2010. They don't have the union hooks demanding more pay and more perks for less work and less quality work. Sure, if you work for Honda you will make less and probably work harder but if you have a conscience you'll be OK with that considering the alternative. Now, you'll still have your job and a fairly secure future vs having to take pay cuts or being asked to retire early or just getting let go. Maybe the GM/Ford/Chrysler workers should head south and see if they can get a job in that new Honda plant being opened in 2010!
Now, states are getting in line asking for money. If I can't pay my bills it's because I didn't run a fiscally responsible household. Our government and states governments should have to abide by the same standards. If you can't afford to fix your roads its because you aren't generating business or you are hemorrhaging money somewhere. Its up to the states to fix their own problems. If they lose taxpayers and businesses to other states who have their ducks in a row, then so be it. That should be the natural order of things.
Now, maybe I had something happen that I could not have foreseen such as a serious illness. But it is still my responsibility. I do have options. Filing for bankruptcy or working with a non-profit credit counseling agency. The automakers need to consider bankruptcy. Sure, lots of jobs would be lost and there would be a ripple effect into other markets. But as long as the unions and the government with their ridiculous restrictions are controlling the 'big three' it's just good money after bad. They will not be able to change their fates and we will have wasted the money we gave them. Until we can break the hold of these massive unions, America will never be a totally free market.
Now, states are getting in line asking for money. If I can't pay my bills it's because I didn't run a fiscally responsible household. Our government and states governments should have to abide by the same standards. If you can't afford to fix your roads its because you aren't generating business or you are hemorrhaging money somewhere. Its up to the states to fix their own problems. If they lose taxpayers and businesses to other states who have their ducks in a row, then so be it. That should be the natural order of things.
Now, maybe I had something happen that I could not have foreseen such as a serious illness. But it is still my responsibility. I do have options. Filing for bankruptcy or working with a non-profit credit counseling agency. The automakers need to consider bankruptcy. Sure, lots of jobs would be lost and there would be a ripple effect into other markets. But as long as the unions and the government with their ridiculous restrictions are controlling the 'big three' it's just good money after bad. They will not be able to change their fates and we will have wasted the money we gave them. Until we can break the hold of these massive unions, America will never be a totally free market.
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