you’re definitely right, i would for sure take $28/hr to do minimal work. how GM and other auto manufacturers ever let it get to that point is what i don’t understand.
it’s posted above, greedy unions, but it’s not the wages that cost this issue, it’s the pensions of retiring workers that became an issue and GM didn’t do anything about it, they were relying on credit to help them through it, but the gas prices and economic downfall kilT any hopes
Listen, i’m not saying i’m for any of these bailouts, i’m saying that if the government is going to waste money, which it obviously does, then i would rather see it go into our own economy than protecting and rebuilding a country that doesn’t even want us there and sits on more oil money than we could fathom. It just doesn’t make sense to me that we pump 10 billion or so a month into that towel head country and GM is failing in our own country and unemployment is on such a rise. that’s all i’m saying.
shouldn’t we as a free markets wannabe economy allow companies to fail? isn’t that the principal of all this? isn’t this what the REP’s are complaining about? But now we are in a crisis so let’s overlook that aspect…blah
I still like whitey’s idea, have a bunch of buckets with all the different places our tax dollars can get spent, and we have to throw our money into those buckets and decide where it gets spent.
I don’t even see how this can be feasible, so many things wouldn’t get done!