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But the guys who take a shower after they come home from work are left dangling by the Bush administration.
I don't care one way or another if you believe the Automakers are a bunch of sleazy bastards or that the UAW is full of knuckle dragging thugs, it has always been this way when it comes to help from Washington.
If the workers are truly the backbone of America, as soft focused pictures in campaign montages point out, how come those who shuffle paper always are first in line and those who work in factories or farms or mines are left with leftovers and fancy promises...
Gov. Granholm was talking about this on Bloomberg today, not in the same words, but you get the gist.
I have problems with both the management of the Big Three and the UAW, but I am smart enough to realize that we have to somehow preserve at least a little sliver of our industrial ability in order to survive as a viable country. The republicans are all against this deal because they think the UAW has it too good, you know, all those so-called $73 and hour job. But management was culpable by being shortsighted starting way back in the fifties when they started to sign agreements they couldn't possibly fulfill. McNamara was saying as much in the early 60's.
(And how about those $400 plus an hour jobs these executives make, and that's the low end. Or the fortunes preserved by the various bank bail-outs. Narry a peep.)
What should push this whole thing through is the UAW agreeing to scale back their compensation packages and to also give in on certain legacy costs.
I don't know.
I do know this, if we just give up on the Big Three and let them wither away, our economy is in for a big shock and it ain't gonna be pretty.
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