econarchy

I think anyone with half-a-brain realizes that Union workers are overpaid, under-worked slugs. The US auto industry has no chance of survival as long as they are forced to pay the workers 500x what they are worth. You could take a high school graduate, give him 3 days of training and $10 an hour and he could do the job of a Union-worker making over $100k a year. Face it, Union jobs could be replaced by anyone with a pulse. Actually, most of them could be replaced by robots, so I guess a pulse isn’t even a requirement.

After 5 decades of using Extortion to jack up their wages, prevent Automakers from investing in automation and technology, and protecting even the laziest and most worthless workers, their demise is near. Yet for some reason they are either too stupid or too ignorant to recognize it. Now we learn that the UAW has walked away from concession talks with GM.

These goons are hell-bent on making sure they are completely eliminated from existence.  Rather than accept a salary that is merely triple what the workers are worth, they are refusing to negotiate. The ONLY thing that the Auto makers should consider at this point is Bankruptcy and the downright destruction of the Union.

Besides, The Union should be an illegal Cartel. If every employer got together and fixed wages they would be sued, fined, and probably imprisoned for Collusion. But when the Unions do the exact same thing on the Supply Side of the labor equation, it is not only acceptable but supported by Liberals.

If you are a Union worker wondering why you are about to lose your job, don’t blame Management. Blame your Union officials that collect insane paychecks to extort your employer.

DETROIT (AP) — Negotiators for the United Auto Workers walked out of concession talks with General Motors Corp. Friday night in a dispute over payments to a union-administered retiree health care fund, a person briefed on the talks said Saturday.

The breakdown comes at a critical time as GM races against a Tuesday deadline to submit a plan to the government showing how it can become viable.

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Hope? Try Hopelessness. Transparency? Try total secrecy and threats. Leadership? How about caving in to politics as usual. Obama is a failed President. Already. Yes, I said it. I mean, I know we are still giving the guy on-the-job training since he has less work experience than the lady helping you find the pooper scoopers at your local Wal-Mart, but Obama is nothing but a mouthpiece for rhetoric. Now he is touring the nation giving his stump speeches, probably because that is all he knows how to do. Hey Obama, the campaign is over! How about rather than travel around giving speaches you get to the Hill and tell Pelosi it may be wise to postpone her little junked to Rome to, you know, DO YOUR JOB!!!!

But that takes leadership, and Obama is an empty bag of hot air. This piece from the WSJ Editorial sums it up quite nicely.

“President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.

AP

In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.

This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don’t come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate. Consider the job losses that Mr. Obama always cites. In the last year, the U.S. economy shed 3.4 million jobs. That’s a grim statistic for sure, but represents just 2.2% of the labor force. From November 1981 to October 1982, 2.4 million jobs were lost — fewer in number than today, but the labor force was smaller. So 1981-82 job losses totaled 2.2% of the labor force, the same as now.”

Hmmm…. I always thought that the Democrat’s campaigned against using Fear to pursuade people and win support. So much for that idea. “Do as I say, or else!” seems to be Obama’s new slogan.

This is from CNN. There is really nothing to say. Just look at the Winners and Losers and it really speaks for itself. And keep in mind, this is from CNN… Not exactly a “right wing” spin here….

Winners

High-speed and inner-city rail: Went from $300 million in House bill to $2.25 billion in Senate to $8 billion in final version. There also is a $6.9 billion provision for public transit.

Amtrak: Picked up $500 million from both House and Senate versions to total $1.3 billion. The bill stipulates that no more than 60 percent can go to the Northeast Corridor.

National Institutes of Health: Ends up with $10 billion in the final bill. The House proposed $3.5 billion and the Senate wanted $10 billion — $8.2 billion goes to the NIH director for his discretion.

Government oversight: Board to oversee stimulus bill spending will get $84 million to do the job. House bill allocated $14 million while the Senate bill called for $7 million. There is also more than $100 million more for various inspectors general in different agencies.

NASA: Banked just more than $2 billion, including $400,000 for science/global-warming research. Watch congressional comments on the stimulus bill »

Losers

• Veterans: Nearly all items for Veterans Affairs were reduced and the $2 billion the Senate wanted for VA construction was wiped out altogether. The VA did get one thing: $1 billion for medical facilities renovation and retooling.
• Military construction: Cut and put into a general pot, a change from targeted money for each branch of the services. Army construction alone went from $600 million in the Senate and $900 million in the House to $180 million in the final bill. But negotiators compromised over a general military construction fund — the House wanted $3.75 billion while the Senate allocated $118 million and settled on $1.45 billion for all services.
• FBI: Senate had allocated $475 million but all was cut out of final bill.

Right…… So Veterans, the Military, and the FBI are the “Losers” and NASA’s global warming research, government oversight (whatever the @#%# that means) and trains are the big “Winners.” Says a lot about the liberals doesn’t it?

Oh yea, one more thing. Can someone tell me again how exactly this BS is going to save our economy? Trains? Global Warming research? Government oversight? Boy, these intellectuals really pulled out their A-game to save us, didn’t they!

This week’s plan crash in Buffalo brings a surprising fact to light - Airlines knowingly operate planes prone to icing up and crashing to save on fuel.  Planes like the one that crashed are known to accumulate ice and do not have the safety features of other planes. Airlines continue to use them, however, because they are “cheaper”.

I don’t know anyone that likes to fly on prop planes. Now we have another reason to hate them - they truly are less safe than the other planes. It isn’t just an unwarranted fear.

So how does that make you feel?

What really freeks me out is that the airlines are subject to the same Federal oversight as the Banking industry - and we all know how well that turned out.

Oh, one more thing, this Canadian-built P.O.S. also apparently has a long history of landing gear problems. Yet the FAA still thinks it is safe for us to fly?

Lawsuits, anyone?