Comments on: Sen. Corker: The Auto Bailout Failed Over 3 Words

By: Mark Bresky

Mark Bresky — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000

To Mikepalos.

How hard is it to understand that if the big 3 didn’t retool to fight Germany and Japan the US would have lost WWII.

Tax payers have paid for Mercedes and Toyota to build in these states. Is that a level playing field?????

Nobody’s opinion is stupid.

By: Britt

Britt — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:57:14 +0000

Honestly, one of the best ways that we can let the UAW and the US auto companies know that we are not happy with the way that they do business is to stop buying cars from them.

By: Ted Sherman

Ted Sherman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:20:26 +0000

If people would not buy a car from a bankrupt company why would they fly in a bankrupt airline? The argument from union backers is nobody would buy a car from a bankrupt car company so give us money.

Gimmy, gimmy, gimmy is all people have been demanding since September (oddly the same month as the terrorist attack). I am not sure of the significance, but it is an odd coincedence. Is this the real target of Al-Queada? Mike Huckabee asked the rhetorical question of how and why for a long time did the dow loose twice as much in the last hour of trading then it did throughout the day? No one has answered that question.

I agree with the President when he said that this economic meltdown is different from a regular recession where people stopped buying things. This is a Barney Frank Christopher Dodd, and yes the President-Elect looking the other way towards what a nine year old girl would know was CRIMINAL conduct in making loans to people who could not pay it back over a 30 year loan period created mess. It was further exacerbated crisis buy the fact that oil went to $150/brl. I disagree with the President that bailing out the car companies is the only way to go.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:06:44 +0000

Sorry to say but the Last great car the big three made was the 1957 Chev.

By: Richard Carlisle

Richard Carlisle — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:58:59 +0000

Nice article but I suspect you meant to say “existing wage levels would have to become commensurate” which means equal in measure; not “commiserate” which means to have sympathy with.

By: mikepalos

mikepalos — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:38:52 +0000

to Mark Bresky;
I hate to be the one to remind you that the auto industry’s problems started like 30 years ago. You don’t realize these are not UAW employees, they are GM, FORD, & CHRYSLER employees. Senators do not come and go with the President _you obviously don’t know this as these Senators, both DEM & REPUB have been in Washington for 20 years for the most part. Yes, they did retool for the war effort, but so did every other industry; what was the alternative choice? Don’t know what point you were trying NOT to make but you did it. Should anyone get laid off and still be paid 95% of their pay for not working? Then why lay them off? HOW STUPID. That is not effective cost cutting.

By: mikepalos

mikepalos — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:20:22 +0000

My hats off to all Dems & Repubs who oppose this farce. What business in their right mind gives workers 95% on the dollar to not work!! RIDICULES!! And the UAW like the AFL-CIO, not investing a dime in re-training displaced workers after all the workers have paid to them. This crap started in the 70s with the Steel industry -called sub-pay, when layoffs due to foreign competetiion nailed the industry. If you’re going to pay someone, then get some work for the bucks. UAW workers should take a 20% paycut and work 4 days a week, no free money to sit at home and hope all will be better. Get out there and help your company get better or re-train for another industry.

By: Mr. Small Business

Mr. Small Business — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:19:09 +0000

Any federal assistance to the automakers is the first step to auto subsidies that will eventually have us paying automakers NOT to make cars. In all the discussions by the media and talking heads they virtually never mention the actual demand for cars.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:40:18 +0000

Total union busting at it’s best… everyone is complaining about tax payers money going to this bailout because of union backed employeees. None of you are talking about the 350 bil. of your dollars spent on the white collar workers in the financial industry. You can sure tell this blog is ran by the republicans. Sorry to say someone will pay for the 3mil. that go on unemployment and the retired peoples meds.
Maybe we can all pay for the government run health care program that all you nonunionized people need because YOU have no benifits….

By: chauncey gardner

chauncey gardner — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:10:47 +0000

where is the language that requires people to by GM, Ford and Chrysler products? The UAW industrial terrorists can squeeze or concede as much or as little as they please out of the manufacturers, but with an impaired product line, the manufacturers sales prospects are not good. I kicked the habit three years ago – no more GM cars. The dealers are lazy – would rather sell to fleets and rental companies than cultivate individual customers. The “foreign dealers” (at least Honda and Lexus) run circles around the Chevy and Ford guys in my area (Long Island).