[quote=Scarlet][quote=davelj]As to the auto makers not ultimately having to go through the BK process I have the following suggestion:

Take a shit in one hand and put all of your hope in the other hand and see which one fills up faster.[/quote]

Do you have some sort of inside information you’d like to share? Or is it just that you have no faith in our governments resolve to throw as much money at it as is needed?

UAW jobs are good jobs. Companies that employ people for 100 years, pay them well and keep their pension and benefit commitments are to celebrated not scorned. Most Americans will only come to understand this when their own pension goes bye-bye in a BK.
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A good portion of the population already do not have a pension, or any guarentees beyond retirement, so frankly that’s probably why a good percentage of folks “can’t relate”…. In fact most of the private sector already works this way, and the only way people survive is through competition and self management/planning. UAW seems to be one of the organizations still holding on to the eutopia of benefits when the market conditions no longer make any sense. Why should my tax payer dollar’s or my kid’s subsidize some retiree? I and a lot of other people in the private sector already have to fend for ourselves in the future for our health benefits, considering how much taxes we are already paying.