A few parting words for the senators who squashed the auto rescue

[DainBramaged]

Hey, you senators: Thanks for nothing


Do you want to watch us drown? Is that it? Do want to see the last gurgle of economic air spit from our lips? If so, senators, know this: You’ll go down with us. America isn’t America without an auto industry. You can argue whether $14 billion would have saved it, but you surely tried to kill it.

We have grease on our hands.


You have blood.


Kill the car, kill the country. History will show that when America was on its knees, a handful of lawmakers tried to cut off its feet. And blame the workers. How suddenly did the workers — a small percentage of a car’s cost — become justification for crushing an industry?


And when did Detroit become the symbol of economic dysfunction? Are you kidding? Have you looked in the mirror lately, Washington?


In a world where banks hemorrhaged trillions in a high-priced gamble called credit derivative swaps that YOU failed to regulate, how on earth do WE need to be punished? In a bailout era where you shoveled billions, with no demands, to banks and financial firms, why do WE need to be schooled on how to run a business?


Who is more dysfunctional in business than YOU? Who blows more money? Who wastes more trillions on favors, payback and pork?


At least in the auto industry, if folks don’t like what you make, they don’t have to buy it. In government, even your worst mistakes, we have to live with.


And now Detroit should die with this?

In bed with the foreign automakers
Kill the car, kill the country. Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Mitch McConnell, your names will not be forgotten. It’s amazing how you pretend to speak for America when you are only watching out for your political party, which would love to cripple unions, and your states, which house foreign auto plants.


Corker, you’ve got Nissan there and Volkswagen coming. Shelby, you’ve got Hyundai, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and — like McConnell — Toyota. Oh, don’t kid yourself. They didn’t come because you earned their business, a subject on which you enjoy lecturing the Detroit Three. No, they came because you threw billions in state tax breaks to lure them.


And now you want those foreign companies, which you lured, and which get help from their governments, to dictate to American workers how much they should be paid? Tell you what. You’re so fond of the foreign model, why don’t you do what Japanese ministers do when they screw up the country’s finances?


They cut their salaries.


Or they resign in shame.

When was the last time a U.S. senator resigned over a failed policy?


Yet you want to fire Rick Wagoner?


Who are you people?




http://www.freep.com/article/20081213/COL01/81213055/?imw=Y

[Dennis Donovan]

1. They are bought and paid for by Toyhondasan...

They have NO allegience to ANYTHING except their own bank accounts.

[xchrom]

2. i don't often agree with you -- but -- recommend.

[DainBramaged]

3. Hope we are at least not enemies

:hi:

[Kalyke]

4. They're economic traitors, is who they are.

[alfredo]

5. Democracy depends on a strong and informed middle class. The

people behind the revolution that freed us from King George were educated middle class patriots.

[Froward69]

6. I agree

just like leno said..."a bunch of people trillions of dollars in debt, complaining about a group that is only billions in debt."

truth is those republicans are so caught up in their hate for people, who voted them out of power. ( and anyone that does not go lockstep with them) they will do everything in their remaining power to cripple the economy. Simply to turn around and say its the Democrats fault.

and to slice the throat of Unions.

republicans really have lost sight of what it means to be Americans. They have it in for the middle class. as if everyone has some money, their millions are somehow worth less.

[cascadiance]

7. And some execs commit Hari Kiri when they shame themselves!

Oh execs and other govmint officials here in this country, would you ever think of doing that? Perhaps having you out of the way might be the best thing for America afterward!

[tammywammy]

8. recommended n/t

[NashVegas]

9. Penned By Mitch Albom, It Needs to Be Said

and yet, I have to add a line or two:

how many of the Detroit auto workers will appreciate Albom's column enough to buy a newspaper and forgo the internet version?

While we cry over the UAW, 10s of thousands of people across America are losing their print jobs?

[Romulox]

10. They broke the unions at the Detroit papers years ago. Just FYI. nt

[NashVegas]

11. I Don't Think You Really Mean To Say

That if it's not a union job, it doesn't count. But that's what it looks like.

[Romulox]

12. I mean "solidarity" doesn't extend to non-union jobs.

I'm puzzled why this is difficult for some to understand.

[NashVegas]

13. Well, That's Just a Shame, Then

[Romulox]

22. I think you may need to review the purpose of "organized labor"

Supporting free-riders ain't it. :hi:

[Statistical]

14. Sad. Is the reverse true?

Should the approximately 70%? of the workers who are not in a Union say: "Screw em it is a Union Job"?

[Romulox]

23. You don't follow the news too closely, do you? Americans as a whole don't support US Labor

"Should the approximately 70%? of the workers who are not in a Union say: "Screw em it is a Union Job"?"

Save the "should" for a theologian or Oprah. I can only observe that most Americans do not support union labor (e.g. when purchasing an auto.)

[Statistical]

28. You are aware GM sold more autos than anyone else in 2008 (by substantial margin) n/t

[DainBramaged]

15. Kick until your hair bleeds

[Fire1]

16. I'm with ya, Dain! I'm union (afl-cio)

[DainBramaged]

18. Thanks for your support

:fistbump:

[madokie]

17. The words that come so readily to my lips when I think about this is

Fuck those senators and the Japanese suv's that brought them to the capital.

[DainBramaged]

19. I am POSITIVE Shelby retires when his term is up and lobbies for the Japanese automakers

[madokie]

21. No doubt about it

I do think that these guys will be wishing they hadn't done some of the things they've been doing shortly after PE Obama takes the reigns. He said there were going to be some bold steps taken and calling the re:puke:s out on their bullshit isn't out of the realm of possiblities if you ask me. Lay low big boy and hit 'em right between the eyes come january 20 is my advice to Obama. After this is all said and done we'll all be better off. For instance, what the ruling class has been doing to the unions all these years is on the tips of everyones tongue now where as a few months ago no one was paying much attention to it. A lot of the things that make America what it is is on everyones mind now too. Its going to get better, much better as soon as these traitors are exposed for what they really are and we are well on the way to doing just that. IMHO

[DainBramaged]

24. When the flow of Federal money stops next year, they'll be squealing like pigs.

[JNelson6563]

20. wait, they will need water

maybe even next summer. We will remember and tell them "tough shit".

[TahitiNut]

29. I wouldn't want to be driving a Japanese car with an Alabama plate in Michigan for a while.

Somehow, I don't think that'd be real smart. Nope. Not smart at all. :shrug:

[DainBramaged]

25. End of the year kick for these douche bags.

[DainBramaged]

26. Wow I can still keep this up to annoy the GM haters

[Odin2005]

27. A-Fucking-MEN

The Pukes: A bunch of ideologically insane economic TRAITORS destroying America.

PISS OFF A PUKE, BUY AMERICAN!!!