Auto maker bailout. What is the best way to show oppositon?

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Having lived just outside of Detroit and hearing constantly from GM workers how part of the GM workers are laid off at 80% of their pay and the others that are still working are getting overtime. Now I am living by Kansas City and many people I know work at the Ford plant where the same type of management happens. I am tired of hearing stories about auto workers who never show up on Friday, etc.,etc. It makes me wonder why we should help a company that obviously mismanages. It was bad enough on the last bailout giving money to the same people who got us in the mess with their deceptive practices and now this. It is not as if the automakers did not know this day would come. They have known for more than 30 years and refused to step up to the plate. And I am not going to feel sorry for someone who has been making around $30 an hour and gets a hefty pension when they retire. Maybe they should step up to the plate and take a pay cut to get their company back on track. So what is the best, most effective way to show opposition to this???

Update:

Oh, I forgot to mention the top dogs, maybe they could get paid less or put some back into their company.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Buy a Toyota.

rosalind · Answer

Had they replaced their product years in the past, to be aggressive contained in the market with Toyota and Honda, they probable does no longer be in this problem now. For years, the american automobile market have managed to achieve fulfillment combating stupid, minor battles (environmental themes, paying their CEO's monetary corporation for failing (this isn't the first time they have been bailed out), seat belt criteria, etc over the years. Now, they confirmed as a lot as invite for funds to assist bail them out. They received the battles yet on the on the spot, they lost the conflict. they are conceited and the actual undeniable truth that they proceed making gasoline guzzling autos after all those years, shows how out of contact they are. they did not study their lesson contained in the 70's at the same time as human beings were waiting in gasoline lines. the motor vehicle market might want to no longer get any funds until eventually the leaders of those organizations renounce and they want to educate that they are going to make autos that folk want to purchase.

Anonymous · Answer

why is it that people always ask the guy making 30 an hour to take a pay cut?

but if you ask the CEO that makes 500 an hour... THAT NEVER WORKS FRIDAYS and only half days the rest of the days... you're a communist?

I'm not saying that it's right what the workers do... but why blame the workers when it's poor management, when the management are the ones that are REALLY benefiting 100 times more from the actions?

Jen · Answer

Write or email your representative in Congress and your Senator.  Write a letter-to-the-editor of your local paper or the Detroit newspaper.  Blog.  You obviously understand the dilemma of the Big 3, so take action in appropriate ways to make your voice heard.

Anonymous · Answer

Just for fun I wrote my representative, just like I did opposing the $750 billion monstrosity of a few months ago.  I got a polite form letter back telling me how, by golly he sure as heckfire hated to vote yes but by golly he had to "save" the U.S.!  I expect a similar form letter this time around.  The idiot (Harry Mitchell) surely thinks I work for him.  But I don't.  Productive people don't work for strangers forever.  Atlas shrugs a little bit at a time.

Mon-chu&#39; · Answer

If I were the UAW, I would damn sure be negotiating with the companies RIGHT NOW. They won't however, because they want to hold out for the hand out.

itsnotbrainsurgery · Answer

Don't worry... these aren't bankers or investors were talking about... they wont get any help... you have to be rich to get handouts.

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Auto maker bailout. What is the best way to show oppositon?

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