Comments on: Democrats Trying to Reverse Bush’s Attempt to Dismantle UAW by Fiat

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:10:24 +0000

Um, it may feel good to blithely trash Wagoner here, just for the sake of doing it, but I fail to see your basis. It appears gratuitous. The post indicates that Wagoner has been working hand in hand with labor to save both efforts and sides of the equation from the hands of the Bush assault. Further GM has been at the forefront of trying to save, and fund consistently, the retiree benefit programs. Yet here you are equating Wagoner with Bush. Seems like rather misdirected anger.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:38:05 +0000

I was thinking the same thing.

By: sunshine

sunshine — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:37:14 +0000

I fixed it for you.

Finally, today, we learn that Barney Frank is hard at work trying to negate “Bush/Card/Wagoner’s” last attempt to dismantle a major union by Presidential fiat.

By: acerigger

acerigger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:08:54 +0000

kinda gives everybody incentive to work together doesn’t it
??

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:07:07 +0000

No, I didn’t drive it, but it’s a nice environment to operate a car.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:43:01 +0000

FWIW, one more bit — I happen to have to drive in the Puget Sound region, and don’t even want to think of the hours of my life squandered in traffic jams.

So if you have a road that you actively DRIVE on at more than 30mph, count your blessings!

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:41:25 +0000

Well, just for the record, not all ‘environmentalists’ are extremists.
I like ‘Vettes.
I like to drive cars (a bit too fast, and on windy, curvy roads).

Also, vehicle use is one aspect of a much bigger puzzle. There are a lot of steps in the process, and in maintenance.

I think you’re barking at a straw dog.
Maybe I’m not extremist enough, but I don’t begrudge anyone a Camaro.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:04:25 +0000

Tell me more about the Z. Did you drive it? What is different from the 350Z? Please be precise! I must know.

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:01:54 +0000

Thanks, scribe. As a footnote to that excellent comment, here’s an ATC item on the “Southern model” auto industry. At about 3:46min in the question of unions arises with bracing forthrightness in the context of whether the Southern industry should worry, in the short term and in the long, about a Big 2.5 bankruptcy. It will be a passage to remember years from now when someone tries to tell you that the recently concluded second civil war was about religious freedom.

By: ferrarimanf355

ferrarimanf355 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:41:58 +0000

Screw this. I went into a Nissan showroom and saw that they had a red 370Z. I sat in it and really liked what I saw. That’s the next car I’m getting- even if GM is saved, the Greenpeace extremists will demand the scalps of the Corvette and Camaro, I bet. Yes, I insulted the environmentalists. Molon labe, bastards!

And why the UAW is only giving concessions recently, when they knew this would come back to bite them in the ass, I’ll never understand.