Automobile Industry "Bailout"

Be wary of any "plan" coming down the pikes, as it is obvious some parties in this matter want to destroy the UAW and thus ruin the standard of living of many workers.

Options are being considered. The industry can NOT be allowed to go under; it's inconceivable.

I, too, get too angry for words when I listen to asshole Republicans who clearly have a death wish for their party in claiming GM and the other auto companies should die:

The idea that they would let GM go down is so outrageous it has me screaming at my TV set whenever I see Richard Shelby or Lindsey Graham talking about how GM brought this all on themselves. Look, the Hummers and the Suburbans (and Expeditions and Rams) were absurd vehicles, sure, but how they got here isn't as important as what will happen if they fall. And remember, the government had some culpability in this, exempting SUVs and light trucks from CAFE standards and cutting CAFE standards up into weight classes, and offering BIG tax credits to the purchasers of the biggest and heaviest SUVs.

But Shelby and Graham are acting particularly nasty and hypocritical here. Shelby represents Alabama, home of the BMW plant that builds its R, GL and M class vehicles -- the big, heavy ones. Graham represents South Carolina, where BMW makes its X-class SUVs and the Z4. If our Big Three go down, their states will benefit from the disappearance of major competitors. I am sure that Graham and Shelby are wholly in favor of the EU's and Germany's bailouts of their auto industries.

And of course, Republicans have long lusted for the death of the UAW.

And how ridiculous is it, all this contrived hand-wringing over the CEOs of the Big Three flying to their hastily-scheduled congressional testimony in corporate jets? What did these congressmen expect, that these CEOs would fly into BWI using coach tickets on Southwest, and somehow that would ease GM's, Ford's and Chrysler's financial woes? Jeesh!

The only trouble with this is people can't afford Mercedes Benzes and BMWs. It's stupid on its face, but par for the course for Republicans.

Shelby, Graham, and any other asshole who proposes death to an industry which would result in a great depression should be targeted for defeat when they come up for re-election.