Auto Bailout

There is a lot of hostility going around concerning our badly fucked economic situation, and people are justly confused, pissed off, and scared about the state of things.

In the wake of a crushing repudiation of the its fiscal rape and plunder (blunder) ideology,and its asinine dreams of empire, the Right (and here), in a last ditch attempt to burn down the future, is screaming for blood of the Big 3.

However, it is the ill ease of some on the left that I wish to address.

You want to know what is driving this vitriol, this fanaticism?

"The UAW has handcuffed GM, Ford, and Chrysler with unreasonable and unrealistic burdens. Their balance sheets will never improve until they shed this weight. "

Understand this, friends: The Big Three must be saved for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that this country would effectively not make a goddamn thing aside from debtors anymore, or that the men and women who gave thirty, forty years in these places, doing the best they could with the shitty management they were directed by (ask a UAW member, ten years ago, about this situation, and they'd tell you it was coming. They'd also tell you that the greed and quick buck lust made their bosses hump the Dodge FuckU mobiles rather than smart, green cars) would jeopardize the pensions and benefits these people worked their asses of for.

But almost at parity with this human disaster is the disaster for the future: The GOP has been waging all out war on Labor since Reagan, and, because of the sophoriffic nature of materialism, they've allowed manufacturing to be shipped out, and thus, unions to be busted. The only hope, in our system, of establishing a fair and just society in the face of massive corporate power is to have organized labor at all levels, and the purpose here of trying to deny the bailout money is the ultimate union busting gambit: Ford, GM, Chrysler go under, no more jobs, no more UAW.

This would be a coup d'etat for Labor in the country, and you can begin to look for the roll back of all Labor has done for our country.