Of course, the goose had a strong hand in its own destruction

UAW grants concessions, exec warns of depression

DETROIT—- Worried about their jobs and warned that failure could lead to a depression, hundreds of leaders of the United Auto Workers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to make concessions to the struggling Detroit Three, including all but ending a much-derided program that let laid-off workers collect up to 95 percent of their salaries.

When I read that sentence above, I want heads to roll. I want UAW management (Note to lefties: Unions are corporations too, and just as corrupt as any “for profit” corporation!) to be tarred and feathered by their workers. I want GM engineers and salespeople to ransack the homes of every board member and top management at GM. WHAT WERE THESE IDIOTS THINKING!

I really no longer care about kicking this can down the road so future generations can deal with the “something for nothing” mentality that has metastasized through out EVERY STRATA of American culture. Maybe a REALLY BAD depression is what these people need. With the loss of character and growing moral hazard that comes from every bailout, a huge depression/collapse is going to happen anyway. We may as well trigger it now, because it will only be worse, and bigger, later.

Union leaders also agreed to let the cash-starved automakers delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-administered trust set to take over health care for blue-collar retirees starting in 2010.

Here again, the Unions and the incompetent management are in cahoots. Appear to compromise, get the federal bailout, and both go crying to the Government for “nationalized health care,” selling the silly notion that by getting government to pay GMs health care bill, they can drop the cost of their fleet of cars. They seem to have forgotten that the overtaxed American won’t be able to afford the cars because THEY will paying for everyone’s health care. Again, something for nothing!!!

In addition, they decided to let the Detroit leadership begin renegotiating elements of landmark contracts signed with the automakers last year, a move that could lead to wage concessions.

The UAW, along with bad management that gave into them, has killed the Goose that lays the golden eggs. Now they want to bring it back to life a little bit, in the hopes that they can kill it again, when “times get better.”

Look folks, the US Auto Industry had horrible management, the US Gov. has horrible “auto” policy, (like forcing CAFE standards, but then allowing for a “class” of trucks, so that the industry could manufacture its way into a dead-end – big gas guzzlers), and the UAW had awful, greedy, and stupid leadership.

Americans, once the most dynamic people on earth, have been led by the Big 3 collectives (Big Unions, Big Corporation, and Big Government) to become stupified, fat, intellectually lazy, and expectant of bailouts and rich early retirements, all at the expense of fewer and fewer productive citizens.

You got what you asked for. You followed collectivism to where it leads. Bankruptcy.