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This article in the Boston Globe just disgusted me. America is struggling because we are a nation full of lazy, worthless goons like this.

A few days after David Adler’s wife decided to leave her law firm in December, he was laid off from his job designing software at Brightcove.

It was shocking. And scary.

Until it wasn’t. Adler has quickly learned to appreciate some aspects of his unexpected unemployment.

The 42-year-old spends his days doting on his 6-month-old daughter, visiting museums with his family, and preparing for a possible exhibit of his photos at a local coffee shop in Dedham. Living off savings, unemployment, and severance packages, Adler knows he has to get a job eventually and has started the search. But for now, he’s cherishing every moment.

Get a job, lazy bum.

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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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No surprises here. The “octuplets mom” from California that has been plastered all over the news lately is a government dependent. She didn’t pay for her child births (the taxpayers of California get that priveledge) and she doesn’t think that the Food Stamps she receives are welfare. Oh, she also doesn’t have a job and has over $50k in student loans.

I am going out on a limb here and guess she voted for Obama. Oh, and based on the picture below, it seems as though she can afford plastic surgery and lip injections. Gross.

 Nadya Suleman has 14 children, including newborn octuplets. She has no job, no income and owes $50,000 in student loans.

But Suleman faces what are likely to be millions of dollars in medical bills alone, and it’s increasingly likely that taxpayers will foot many of those bills.

Her family is eligible for large sums of public assistance money. Even before she gave birth to the octuplets Jan. 26, Suleman was receiving $490 in monthly food stamps, and three of her children were receiving federal supplemental security income because they are disabled.

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