Senate Abandons Automaker Bailout Bid
“…negotiators worked late into Thursday evening to broker a deal, but deadlocked over Republican demands for steep cuts in pay and benefits by the United Automobile Workers union in 2009.”
Because of course it’s all the workingman’s fault.
Here’s an idea: Instead of abandoning the bailout bid and the automakers’ employees, can we instead abandon the southern lawmakers — including Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Tennessee’s Bob Corker, and Alabama’s Richard Shelby — who continue to exhibit such hypocrisy? Nowhere have they mentioned that their states provide major tax concessions to the foreign automakers that have set up shop there, making these automakers more economically viable, and that they work on these foreign companies’ behalf to prevent union organizing.
And let’s give a big shout-out to Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao. Nowhere have I seen any mention of the conflict of interest posed by our Secretary of Labor sleeping with a man actively engaged in union busting.
Truly, could we possibly envision a more dysfunctional government than the one presented us by the Bush administration?
Imprison Bush now. Avoid the rush later.
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