A modest, moral proposal for fiscal responsibility.

[screembloodymurder]

I'm soOOOooo tired of corporate whining. GM blames its workers for it's managements incompetence and threatens to hide behind the bankruptcy laws to avoid health care payments.

Excuse me, but didn't we just decide people should pay their bills or work them off?

Well then, Mr. CEO I've got a job for you. Since you've already demonstrated your inability to manage, how about 60 hours a week cleaning bed pans, you worthless, shirking piece of scum. All proceeds will go to your former employees health plan.

And while I'm at it, Mr. Presiden*, you and your family have a few bills to pay.

Anybody out there have a job for the Bush family members?

All proceeds go to our Social Security Fund.

[acmejack]

1. Bankruptcy is only a problem for those worthless consumers

Abdicating formal contracts and screwing thousands is just good business. Another question is why the much vaunted free market is not allowed to work when these companies (think airlines) go broke, but the taxpayers must bail them out. And assume pension liabilities. And continue to pay their executives huge salaries.

[screembloodymurder]

2. You're ruining my day with the truth.

Republican Rule #1: We are above the law and morals need not apply.

[Kansas Wyatt]

3. Liquidate all of their assets first...

So they can struggle, without any personal family empires to fall back on, just like the rest of us.

Oh, the 'Shock & Awe' of the Bush family, and their 'elite base,' being flat broke without any money and property to cash in or live off of, having to figure out just how they can survive in 'Murika.'

[screembloodymurder]

4. I've got a job for Jenna

if she can stay sober. GW is such a slouch. Just the mention of hard work can be traumatic, but I'd give him a job fertilizing (the job I'm trying to avoid at this very moment) my lawn. He's good at spreading BS and he can shower out back with the boys.

[BornaDem]

5. You may be treating this like a joke...

but I believe that GM is going to 1) vanish, 2) merge with ?, or 3) go belly up and have their latest equipment shipped off to China. Whatever happens to GM will be shortly followed by Ford, and another American industry bites the dust. The gov't will let our auto industry disappear because if they attempted to bail them out, we would be levied big fines by the WTO or somebody. IMO this is no laughing matter and I am not a GM employee, retiree, etc. and don't even know anybody who is. Our economy is being hollowed out by trade deals and sooner or later, we are all going to feel the pain.

[screembloodymurder]

6. It's no joke. I'm fucking outraged!

I'm just as serious about this as the Rethugs are about their moralistic bankruptcy bill. What's good for the goose, is good for the gander. US corporations should be held to the same bankruptcy standards as individuals. We the people better wake up. Our economy is being "hollowed out" by capitalistic greed. These bastards have no country; their only allegiance is to the dollar and I think they should suffer the same fate as all traitors.

[BornaDem]

7. Sorry, I didn't mean you in particular...

This is nothing to laugh at. We have been sold out and they get the cash and we get screwed. We lose our country and they live in whatever or how many whatevers they choose, which isn't likely to be here once we are at the bottom and in complete decline. It won't be safe for them (or us), but like, they care! I'm sure they will all go live on some nice Carribean Is. with a military just slightly smaller than the US has in case one of us wants to paddle our way to get them in some piece of sinking crap like the Haitians use to come here.

You forget: They aren't US corporations anymore; they are world corporations with former US roots.