I look at this new president and wonder how any of his constituents can stick with him. It's been one broken promise after another.
"Autoworkers lambaste decision on car industry" by Associated Press | March 31, 2009
DETROIT - Many assembly line autoworkers reacted with skepticism and anger yesterday to the Obama administration's tough tactics, which stoked long-simmering feelings that the people who put the country on wheels get treated differently than the wizards of Wall Street.
They do have a point.
"It's the age-old Wall Street versus Main Street smackdown again," said Brian Fredline, president of UAW Local 602 at a plant near Lansing, Mich. "You have all kinds of funding available to banks that are apparently too big to fail, but they're also too big to be responsible."
It's a great life, isn't it?
"But when it comes to auto manufacturing and middle-class jobs and people that don't matter on Wall Street, there are certainly different standards that we have to meet - higher standards - than the financials. That is a double standard that exists, and it's unfair," Fredline said.
Welcome aboard! I know it's a long line regarding those who feel betrayed by the guy; however, you'll have to go to the back. Antiwar folk first in line. You can talk to the enviros while you wait.
Many workers - not generally known for their affection toward executives - even sympathized with Rick Wagoner, who was forced to step down as chief executive of
Now you KNOW Obama has betrayed labor when they start feeling sorry for the CEO!!!
"We knew someone was going to have to take the proverbial 'bullet,' and it would have made it a lot easier to accept that had the CEOs of the banks also been required to give up their jobs," said Jim Graham, president of a union local in Lordstown, Ohio, where GM produces the
President Obama said he was "absolutely committed" to the survival of a domestic auto industry that can compete internationally. He raised the possibility of controlled bankruptcy for one or both of the troubled automakers.
What domestic auto industry? They have spent the last 30 years shifting production to Asia and Mexico!!!
And if the companies might be placed in bankruptcy anyway, WHY DID the TAXPAYERS FORK OVER $40 BILLION and WHERE DID THAT $$$$ GO?
Obama said the administration will offer GM "adequate working capital" during the next 60 days to produce an acceptable reorganization plan.... Many workers say the government hasn't dictated such terms to insurance giant AIG or the banks in which it's taken an ownership stake.
Again, GOOD POINT!
Obama's actions come amid public outrage over bonuses paid to business leaders and
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The more I think about it, the more I believe the AIG guys were offered up to the MSM as sacrificial sheep so the government and administration would have carte blanche to move with this takeover bit.
NOTHING is placed in the MSM by accident and it is ALL a STAGE-MANAGED PRODUCTION!!
Otherwise, you WOULD BE GETTING REAL NEWS and TRUTHS!!!!
