[NOS2Go4Me]

All I want out of this (and I'm late to the party) is for the "guys involved", union-side, to tell it like it is.

Why? Because the Big 3 were the first to belly up to the taxpayers' trough and ask for a handout. Because all of us paid into that trough and now they (well, GM and Chrysler, at least) have said they want a handout in order to survive.

You're damn straight I want to know some facts about why folk are getting paid more than the average Joe would to sit at home (and drink beer, Bryan ;) ) and our tax dollars are effectively subsidizing some of those payments. More realistically, we're subsidizing a chunk of EVERY payment, above and beyond their E.I. draws.

This isn't a personal attack against anyone here, working or not, who is in the union. I'm just really pissed that the latest round of "facts" offered up by the CAW/UAW are pretty thin on substance and heavy on semantics. I don't pity anyone that is laid off right now, no more so than I would expect anyone to pity me if I was. Instead, I'm hoping that each of them pulls through and I'm in the process of tightening my own belt and lowering monthly expenditures.

When tax dollars are being thrown around, I take an interest. It's as simple as that. Doubly so when the guys asking for them fly in for their first meeting :rolleyes: Taking the hybrids the first time would have been the politically smart thing to do.