Automobile Industry Crisis

While Bush's plan is better than nothing, it isn't much, since workers have to make concessions.

This is horseshit:

He said the companies' workers should agree to wage and work rules that are competitive with foreign automakers by the end of next year.

And he called for elimination of a "jobs bank" program — negotiated by the United Auto Workers and the companies — under which laid-off workers receive unemployment benefits and supplemental pay from their companies for 48 weeks. If they remain laid off beyond that, they move to a jobs bank in which the company provides about 95% of their pay and benefits. Until the most recent contract, people could remain in the jobs bank for years. Early this month, the UAW agreed to suspend the program.

Why the fuck not demand foreign manufacturers to have wage and work rules competitive with American? Of course, THEY are subsidized.