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Originally Posted by el ess X

Unions suck....

...and suck...and suck...until your company is dead.

No one ever will convince me that this isn't true, so you union folks can save your breath. There was once a time when unions made sense. Now, not so much. I used to belong to the IBEW...guess what, I have the same benefits without the drain of union dues. Why pay someone else for benefits I get for free from the company?

You hear the rhetoric that "there was no choice" and that we'd be in a depression...etc. So? What is so bad about that? The quicker the rock hits bottom, the quicker you start to go back up. But we're not at the bottom yet. When it comes to REAL free markets, private corporate bailouts are stupid with a capital STUPID. And...did someone forget to "mention that little detail" of GM not paying taxes? Someone wasn't in the know that said they do pay taxes. Nope. The first $45 billion in profits are tax free. WTF? Why is that?

If it was Ford instead of GM, it'd be the same story. I'm glad GM was saved, at least for now, but not happy about how the deal smells.



Not enough of this in this thread:

You're correct in saying that this uncalled for government intervention only delays the inevitable.