To be devil's advocate
, I would have much rather bailed out the big three with what is now a lousy fifteen billion dollars, then given one-hundred fifty billion to AIG for them to have gone on a friggin' vacation and party up.
That's my goddamn money and I want a dividend check every quarter like a stock holder because that's still my money. My money bailed them out and I want a damn dividend check. Is that too much to ask for? Everyone is correct. The average pay of the UAW member is about $69 an hour. That is absurd. I had a college professor back in 1995 who was about 45 at the time, who was from Detroit and his father got him a summer job working for GM back in the early seventies while he was in school. He was making $17 an hour with his friend, taking hoods of the molds and putting them on the line to be installed on the vehicles.
$17 an hour is good money nowadays but imagine back in 1972!!!!! Ridiculous!!! Unions had there place fifty years ago but it's time for them to go in this case. That's how Toyota, who is now number two, has competed and competed successfully. Hyundai is doing good. Kia is doing good. In Europe however, GM and Ford are making money hand over fist and most of Europe is Socialist or Socialist-leaning. How the f@(k do does anyone figure that out?????
