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   amazo2 said, 11 months ago

   What do the unions have to do with this? They make what managers, designers and engineers tell them too.

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   LinguaFrank said, 11 months ago

   Yeah, it seems a bit unfair. I guess the union wages are high compared to maquiladora wages. But health care costs and pension are a big piece of the benefits package. Everyone in the country wants better security against the weakness of old age. I wouldn’t demonize the union for negotiating and winning.

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   amazo2 said, 11 months ago

   Yes, I mean they (unions) did negotiate, won their contract and reap the benefit. It’s like demonizing sports players for asking and getting what the owners give them. Someone agreed to pay it!

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   bell3rose1a said, 11 months ago

   yep, all labors/unions fault. management ie the suits, nope nothing, they are all pure as the wind driven snow.

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   DALLASDAN said, 11 months ago

   The UAW needs to make sure American workers get what they can before the Big 3 Stooges outsources all their jobs to 3rd world nations where they pay pennies per hour.

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   Simon_Jester said, 11 months ago

   Wanna get a right-winger on the side of the auto-company bailout?

   Just remind him that if the Big Three go belly-up, it’s bye-bye NASCAR.

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   lalas said, 11 months ago

   They’re both to blame… this seems to be the first toon to acknowledge that. But y’all need to remember that GM foisted their pension system over to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp (the taxpayers) in ‘05.

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   oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

   YES!!! Vindication!!!

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   HUMPHRIES said, 11 months ago

   Hmmm, old71, what happened to no bite today? PS peek down in the corner.

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    oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

    Humpy, I missed that..tkx

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    acellist said, 11 months ago

    Vice versa is banned in Michigan…

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    oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

    What no vice with Versa? Bummer.

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    DALLASDAN said, 11 months ago

    The Jester made a funny and a good point. I wonder how much gas is wasted so that cars can go in circles? Those NASCAR dads are funding terrorism.

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    oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

    Tell that to a NASCAR Dad’s face and you’ get a Bud bottle down your pie hole or somewhere…

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    RowdyCMoore said, 11 months ago

    NASCAR uses about 2 million gallons of fuel in a year. But all of us unnecessarily waste more than twice that amount every day.

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    oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

    AND NASCAR uses E85, I think. Thereby fueling global hunger by diverting corn from the food chain via lobbyist to corn belt congressmen/women.

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    DHLEAKY said, 11 months ago

    oldlegodad71 says:

    “AND NASCAR uses E85, I think. Thereby fueling global hunger by diverting corn from the food chain via lobbyist to corn belt congressmen/women.”

    That box of corn meal that you got free from the Gov’t for the past years that you have not worked, was impacted by .001 cent from Ethanol. The rest of the cost increase was the billions of dollars from the increase in fuel costs affecting the cost of EVERYTHING from the dirt it is grown in to the rent you pay on your double wide.
    Phase two is already under way, here in my home state, for switching from corn and soy to dry field waste and other dry products. You have to quit believing what Bush, Rush and the fossil fuel industries feed you. THINK and do a little research before you utter.

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    oldlegodad said, 11 months ago

    I stopped listening to Rush in ‘96. And my story 1/2 is worth 70k more than my equity even in this market.
    How you doing?

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    Jeffritoman said, 10 months ago

    I’d like to see Pat Oliphant work on an assembly line for a month and see how inept he thinks auto workers are then, if he’s not too pooped to raise his pen to ink.