What I find the most funny about anti union folks is since union membership is at the lowest point in union history you would think the economy would be booming and the standard of living would be sky rocketing but atlas the country is in the tank and the standard of living is in the tank. Coincidence? I think not~

Just saying~

What I find the most funny about anti union folks is since union membership is at the lowest point in union history you would think the economy would be booming and the standard of living would be sky rocketing but atlas the country is in the tank and the standard of living is in the tank. Coincidence? I think not~

I never said I buy cheap stuff either, I said most people do. My motto is “buy cheap buy twice.” All this other stuff you talk about is great ideally but you know people aren’t going to pay more for US made goods. Like it or not the world is going to the dumps. We can either complain about it or do something. Last I heard about the buyout the UAW broke the deal b/c they didnt’ want paycuts.

I am not some rich wall street professional either, I run part of a small business and I have been so broke as to round up change to pay for my dinner.

Oh btw the transplants provide dental and optical too! Go figure uh~

Now, with that being said, I do think that the UAW is going to have to make some concessions. For one, there are going to be job cuts. The gov’t even said in the bailout they were going to let them borrow money to buy new efficient machinery thats probably goign to replace someone. They can stay in business if they can cut expenses and unfortunately all those employees are the big $$ problem. Or they can not do that and everyone loses their jobs.

If a US company made televisions identical to Sony but they cost 3x more, the US company would go out of business. If they could fire 300 employees (lets say 20% or their total)and stay in business then they should fire them. Its not a big deal when its a small number but when it affects a large amount of people its “not fair” even though its still just a percentage.

It shouldn’t be an all-or-nothing deal like it is right now. And it should have been up to the people that owned the company, not the union (although now that the gov’t is involved they should have a say too). Auto companies are not owned by taxpayers. Everybody is going to have to make sacrifices, and if that means auto workers dont get dental or vision anymore I doubt anybody is going to feel sorry for them.

Lord I’d rather pay for people than robots! Soon everything will be robots! I think that’s bunk but you know more about rice ride plants than the average person.

No the quality issue is something that is easy to cling too~ Also I wouldn’t suggest buying Mexican or South Korean made Big 3 either! There are US Big 3 vehicles with 75%+ US made content! So that is fail! If Americans bought more of those there would be even more~ Actually I think the Big 3 are stupid for even caring. I would just say fuck it and go over seas 100%~ Union couldn’t stop that!

You said-
“Currently none of my family works for any of the big three but are retired from them.”
&
“I still have an uncle and aunt, and cousin working for GM. And until just recently had two uncles.”

So which is it?

The reason the transplants don’t have that many people to pay is because they use a lot of automatic machinery. You know why a Hyundai is dirt cheap? They use robots to build them and therefore there is nobody to get sick. The Big 3 could do the same thing but it would cost a lot of jobs therefore the union won’t let them. Besides, whats so great about a company that produces all its parts in Canada and sends them to Mexicans to assemble them? You act like they don’t use foreign labor as well. American cars cost more and they are not as reliable. Wonder why nobody buys them. And I am not a “rice lover”, I have owned European and American autos as well. The Americans ones just didn’t last as long.

I SAID RETIREE HEALTH CARE! DUH READ IT! LMAO~

Mmmm reason they have 500,000 retirees is because the transplants haven’t been here as long…but don’t worry your rice ride loving ass as they will have some day.

Stop blaming unions and put the blame on lame as foreign rice ride lovers like you. I don’t really care if they go under wont affect me that much. I still have an uncle and aunt, and cousin working for GM. And until just recently had two uncles. You have no idea what the fuck your blabbering about but it sounds good I guess!

Still no slam against Wall. St. you probably work in that sector~

So if the unions are ruining the auto sector, what ruined the rest of the non union manufacturing base? What ruined the paper sector? What ruined the textile sector? What ruined the electronics sectors? What that all crooked unions too? LMAO!~ Nope cheap imported products produced by slave labor! Too funny. Have a good day rice ride lover as soon another sector of the US economy will be gone. Hopefully there will be enough service sector tax payers to keep you in your lifestyle you become accustomed too~

There is a reason transplants dont have 500k employees – they dont have a retard union that prevents them from making job cuts unless it is threatening to run them bankrupt. The Employee Free Choice Act is threatening to make voters decisions public. Goodbye democracy. Even a lot of Democrats are against it. They are trying to intimidate transplant employees into voting to bring in crooked-ass unions by telling everyone if they vote against it.

PS – you said “P.S. I said retiree health care~ Selective reading? No I didn’t edit it and put it in!”

What I SAID was -
“Healthcare isn’t the issue as you pointed out, its retiree health.”

Blindass motherfucker.

I never said anything about who didn’t want or did want unions. If that is the case the Employee Free Choice Act shouldn’t effect them at all then! We can hope it passes then!

Funny how you switched right away from your big rant away from the health care costs! That’s right the transplant have all that too, even retirees just they don’t have 500,000~

So tired of this quality scape goat.

P.S. I said retiree health care~ Selective reading? No I didn’t edit it and put it in!

I was talking to my barber about this and she said her brother retired at 50, gets paid $60,000 a year and has full health, dental, and vision. You think GM WANTED to give him all that? I guess to be fair he is doing the same type of work he was at the factory – sitting on his ass all day. Direct result of the union burning the farm to get out of tilling it.

I have family and friends that worked in the UAW so don’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talkin about. Oh yeah I read an interview w/ GM CEO Bob Lutz yesterday and he even apologized for the poor product they produced. They also took out a full page ad saying how they let everyone down and are sorry.