‘There Are No Tea-baggers in Soup Lines’

[Omaha Steve]

http://labornotes.org/blogs/2010/01/no-teabaggers-soup-lines

by Jane Slaughter | Mon, 01/11/2010 - 2:39pm

Auto workers outshone the tea-party types as dueling demonstrations took place in the snow outside the Detroit Auto Show today. Small numbers of auto workers gathered to say government should use its role in the auto bailout to direct the factories toward job-creating green products such as high-speed trains and wind turbines—and should enact Medicare for All.

Small numbers of auto workers gathered to say government should use its role in the auto bailout to direct the factories toward job-creating green products such as high-speed trains and wind turbines—and should enact Medicare for All. (See Friday’s post by Frank Hammer for more.)


Auto workers demanded green production, outside the Detroit Auto Show January 11. Inside, much attention was paid to electric cars. Photo credit: Aaron Petcoff.


Members of the National Taxpayers Union, joined by members of the weird-fringe Lyndon LaRouche group, said the government never should have bailed out the auto companies at all, and should stop “meddling in the industry’s restructuring.”

Retiree Stacey Kemp drove with her daughter from Saginaw, several hours north, to carry a sign reading “Our future could suck if we let it.” Kemp retired from GM two years ago after being transferred around to 10 different Michigan plants. She said that with Medicare for All, workers “wouldn't have to worry about jumping from job to job. It’s a big issue for people with families.” She sees the outcome of the 2009 health care reform as “a present to the insurance companies.”

FULL story at link.

[zbdent]

1. Interesting situation out here in Ohio ...

We have a Republican who wishes to unseat a Dem (duh) ...

Here's the sitch ...

The Republican, Tom Ganley, owns a Chevy dealership, among others (including a Mercedes-Benz dealership, part of the "Ganley Auto Group") ... which benefited from the "Cash-For-Clunkers" program, moving inventory off his lot.

The Democrat he's trying to unseat ... Betty Sutton ... is directly responsible (if not totally) for the very legislation which helped put money into Ganley's pocket. He's a direct recipient of the federal monies she put into place.

Not sure how he's going to spin that into office ... but you know the "liberal media" will allow him to get away with it ...