You have to hand it to the Republicans. Seriously. You have to. If not, they'll beat and belittle you, take whatever you have, anyway, and then insist you never had it in the first place.
The nicest thing I can say about the current crop of GOP (Grinches On Parade) ideologues is that they're consistent. With America currently in the shape of an ER patient on a crash cart, Republican politicos still spew their psychotic Bizarro World views; sort of a fragmented funhouse mirror reflection of their already distorted priorities. Up is down. Right is wrong. And if you feel life has you by the short hairs, you're not seeing life the way they do - so it's all your fault.
Take the current collapse of Detroit's auto making industry. In the Republican view, it's not the companies that caused the crisis, it's the greedy union workers who wanted to, damn them to Hell, earn a living wage!
A group of Southern Senators put the kibosh on a vital influx of cash to the automakers because the deal didn't require union workers to trim their salaries to equal those of non-union workers who toil at foreign auto plants in...the South. The Senators, led by Foghorn Leghorn flimflammers extraordinaire Richard Shelby of Alabama and David Vitter of Louisiana, used very quaint language to try to disguise their union-busting bid.
Declared Vitter, "Negotiations on a real restructuring plan failed for one reason only: The union and the Democratic leadership wouldn't agree to any wage concessions by a date certain. None."
Vitter, a Family Values kinda Senator who has, in the past, had trouble keeping his little Vitter critter in his pants whilst around hookers, concluded with a somber, "It's a shame."
Morgan Johnson, president of the UAW in Louisiana, took a less phantasmagorical approach to Vitter's problem with the unionized auto industry. "He'd rather pay a prostitute than pay auto workers."
Now, all of this wage-cutting rumbling could be chalked up to non-political, altruistic reasoning on the Republicans' part. They want to save the country millions of lost jobs, right?
Uh, not really.
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uh,,, union folk earn WAY more than the average Joe on the street. In fact most of the cost of cars made in the USA go right into the pockets of the union folk who make them. So much so that the cars are unaffordable.
$25/hour + benefits + pensions
There are more pensioners than workers!
THAT is the problem. Sorta like the Federal Government. End entitlements and no more budget problems!
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