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