# Ford|GM Merger

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**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740 "2008-11-19T10:19:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-gm-merger/200740/77 "2008-11-25T09:18:35Z")

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> [@Investment Property Gem](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/investment-property-gem/38821/11):
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> Ask where that $75/hour figure comes from.
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> It’s the sum of all pay, including management, plus the sum of all current benefits, plus the sum of all pensions currently paid, divided by number of current employees. It’s a \*\*\*\* stat that conservatives will repeat ad nauseum to try to make it accepted fact.
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> Citigroup can get $80b but the automakers can’t get $25b? You’re a \*\*\*\*ing tool. The gov’t is just playing games with the big three; the money’s coming.

Do you know that for a fact? Do high level executives belong to the UAW? If so the point is it still is double what other manufatures payout. Then you add in the benefits…that is better than 99% of what other people pay/have…can’t lay off workers if a plant closes…if my work’s office closed odds are I would be out of a job…There are a lot of unions that do more harm than good and this is one of them.

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