But you know why they're complaining so loud don't you? This isn't about "wasting tax payer money". This is about the GOP trying to once and for all completely dismantle organized labor, beginning with the steel and auto workers union.

I respectfully disagree that it's a drive by the GOP to do ANYthing.

Echoing soulmonarch, the GOP in its current form is no longer conservative and there may be only 4 or 5 non-socialists left in Congress.

The greatest argument against the viability of unions has been the unions themselves, not the GOP. It's economics: you cannot have 4 or 5 retirees earning benefits for every full-time worker.

The America-based Japanese car companies have no unions, their employees make good wages and their companies aren't facing extinction.

A revolution may be in order, but RoPaul won't be its leader.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Complaining about this pissant 15 billion auto union bailout is like getting upset over the blood stains in the carpet in a roomful of dead bodies.


Damn straight.

But you know why they're complaining so loud don't you? This isn't about "wasting tax payer money". This is about the GOP trying to once and for all completely dismantle organized labor, beginning with the steel and auto workers union.

First off all, it's not a "bail out" it is a loan.

Second, if you'd like to talk about "small businesses", how many small businesses would you see evaporate with no auto industry to supply goods to?

If the automotive industry is able to declare bankruptcy, they no longer have to honor contracts such as those with the UAW. A LOT of GOP fucktards are pushing for the big-three to fail precisely to dismantle organized labor.

These fucks don't give one shit about "saving the taxpayers money", they are chomping at the bit to once and for all destroy unions for good and for anyone to fall prey to their rhetoric and propoganda is very very dangerous.

For the record, these jerks didn't ask a single question about any of these topics in a 90+ minute debate:

The financial crisis
The collapse of housing values in the US and around the world
Afghanistan
Health care
Torture
The declining value of the US Dollar
Education
Trade
Pakistan
Energy
Immigration
The decline of American manufacturing
The Supreme Court
The burgeoning world food crisis.
Global warming
China
The attacks on organized labor and the working class
Terrorism and al Qaeda
Civil liberties and constraints on government surveillance

(original list from dailykos)

Instead it was a cavalcade of nothing but smear questions about Bittergate, Rev. Wright, Bosnia, tax cuts (the "moderators" arguing in favor, natch), even scraping deep into the barrel to try for BS links to Weather Underground that Sean Hannity is trying to push.

ABC's phones and mailboxes are gonna get stuffed with hateful responses.