Auto Bailout Talks Collapse as Senate Deadlocks Over Wages

***HOMEWORK from Randy***

United States Senators Who Can't Provide $14 Billion To Save Our Own People***
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izj-oTsd3Ny4jLQ5_kO0DJhakTNgD950VN100
Allard, Colo.; Barrasso, Wyo.; Bennett, Utah; Bunning, Ky.; Burr, N.C.; Chambliss, Ga.; Coburn, Okla.; Cochran, Miss.; Coleman, Minn.; Corker, Tenn.; Crapo, Idaho; DeMint, S.C.; Ensign, Nev.; Enzi, Wyo.; Grassley, Iowa; Gregg, N.H.; Hatch, Utah; Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Kyl, Ariz.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Roberts, Kan.; Sessions, Ala.; Shelby, Ala.; Thune, S.D.; Vitter, La.; Wicker, Miss.Baucus, Mont.; Lincoln, Ark.; Reid, Nev.; Tester, Mont***

United States Senators Who Had No Fucking Problem Spending A Half A Trllion Dollars On
Iraq***
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237#position
Allard, Colo; Baucus, MT; Bennett, Utah ; Bunning, Ky; Cochran, Miss; Crapo, Idaho;Ensign, Nev.; Enzi, Wyo.; Grassley, Iowa; Grassley, Iowa; Gregg, N.H.; Hatch, Utah; Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Kyl, Ariz.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Roberts, Kan.; Reid, Nev.; Sessions, Ala.; Shelby, Ala.;

THE THREE ARTICLES YOU MUST READ TODAY!!!

Why didn’t the fat cats on Wall Street have to cut their pay and bonuses, health care and retirement benefits?Good question
http://washingtonindependent.com/19884/frank-on-auto-bailouts-and-income-inequality

Answer? Because we’re IDIOTS (without lobbyists)http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/14-reasons-main-street-loses/story.aspx?guid=%7BF63EC448-D9C1-4138-AC18-97BF0FE68EE3%7D

A The Single BEST Article About The Economy - Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity FairPaste and copy this link in all those emails you're getting from your right wing Uncle saying it was ALL poor people...& Fannie &Freddie'fault.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/stiglitz200901?printable=true&currentPage=all

AND NOW THE NEWSAIG – It’s BONUS time! The insurance company plans to hand over millions of dollars to its own employees.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/earlyshow/main4661900.shtml?source=mostpop_story

BERNAERD MADOFF BEHIND BARS Former Nasdaq chairman gets arrested for possibly committing a $50 billion fraud scheme
.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/bs_nm/us_madoff_arrest

SOUTHERN BASTARDS FIDDLE WHILE THE NORTH BURNSAUTO FAIL-OUT The Germans and Japanese win WW2, destroy America.It just took 63 extra years. And the Senate Republicans. GOP Kills Auto Bailout. Welcome, Depression.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/business/13auto.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

The South Wins The Civil War?Classic Southern aristocratic disgust with organized workers, plus big money relationships with foreigners. Sounds like pure antebellum.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081212/OPINION03/812120397

Talks Collapse Over Wages Thank Bob Corker for killing the Heartland because he thinks workers make too much. Barbara Boxer says senate "playing Russian Roulette with our economy..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121101578.html?hpid=topnews

Corker Blames The Unions
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#28184396

It's "Herbert Hoover Time"The words of...of all people...Dick Cheney as he tried in vain to bring around Repubs on a deal the White House supported.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2A9EA31E-18FE-70B2-A8C5B56B85040BD6

38 Days Too Long. Suppliers Can't Wait.The make parts for EVERYONE (Asian brands share 58% of suppliers with GM).....but Big 3 bills aren't paid, and they're on the verge of shutdown. Tell that to your slaves, Massah Shelby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/business/12rescue-web.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs Will Vanish Before ChristmasGM, Chrysler will be forced to close plants, radically cut production. Up to 3,000 GM dealerships alone could close nationwide. A nuclear attack on the midwest couldn't do more to ruin its' solvency. Thank you, anti-union Republicans.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081212/BUSINESS01/812120370

Voices Of MichiganSenators, here's the people you are betraying....hardworking Americans now filled with fear for their families.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081211/BUSINESS01/81211084

Now it’s up to Bush to release The TARP funds or plunge us into a Depression Seriously
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28166218/

The $73/hr figure is total bullcrap. http://www.freep.com/article/20081211/BUSINESS01/812110408
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/business/economy/10leonhardt.html?em

Hourly wages for UAW workers at GM factories are about equal to those paid by Toyota Motor Corp. at its older U.S. factories, according to the companies. GM says the average UAW laborer makes $29.78 per hour, while Toyota says it pays about $30 per hour. But the unionized factories have far higher benefit costs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/11/business/main4661859.shtml

The UAW agreed to cap the cost of retiree health care through creation of an independent trust fund and agreed to cut wages in half, to $14 an hour, for new hires in non-assembly jobs (20% of the workforce
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/12/04/detroit-labor-uaw-biz-manufacturing-cz_jm_1205union.html

Autoworkers – “The cost of labor is 8% of the cost of a new car. We could work for free and it wouldn’t solve the problem”
http://washingtonindependent.com/21380/auto-workers-make-case-for-bailout

$700 Billion BAILOUT...And Executives Are STILL Taking Millions In BonusesNeel Kashkari on the hot seat in Congressional Hearings
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/

Bob Corker’s TENNESSEE
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/jul/24/chattanooga-vw-incentives-largest-state/?print

CEO of Compuware gets it
http://www.uaw.org/auto/11_25_08auto1.cfm

ECONOMY SINKING FASTER AND FASTER Jobless claims reach a 26 year high
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/11/news/economy/jobless_claims/?postversion=2008121110

Economy shedding jobs at an “alarming” rate
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-economy-sheds-533000-jobs/story.aspx?guid={5446C124-6428-4C60-8CB9-30505CCA12AA}&siteid=bnbh

Hundreds of thousands of jobs being cut
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLgwfpZSD.R0

8 MILLION FORECLOSURES PREDICTED 1 IN 6 HOMES
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/More-8-million-homes-face/story.aspx?guid=%7B93DE5904-2ED2-4A76-8ACB-8E91439F841B%7D

We’re ALL Subprime NOW
http://www.housingwire.com/2008/12/10/forecast-8-million-homes-to-foreclose-in-coming-years/

WHERE’S THE DAMN STIMULUS PACKAGE PRESIDENT BUSH?http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/07/AR2008110701246_pf.html

BLAG-OY!-EVICHRahm Emanuel talked to Blago multiple times about Senate Seat likely on tape. Obama to turn over all docs – Absolutely sure “NO deal making”
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=8054792&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Only two questions left for Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2008/dec/11/obama-white-house-blago-pressconf

Blago Ultimatum: Quit Or We Bounce YouIL AG Madigan spearheads the charge...and threats....to remove Blagojevich from office
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1322980,CST-NWS-resign10.stng

Obama Avoided Blago Like The PlagueDidn't see Blago speaking at the Convention? There was a reason. Obama and Blagojevich couldn't stand one another.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/12/11/VI2008121101627.html

"Good Friend?"On MSNBC , Repub hack tries to make Blago and Barack best buds. One problem: The host had lived in Chicago and knew better
http://mediamatters.org/items/200812110015?f=h_top

Obama In Damage ControlNah, nothing else to worry about, right? President-Elect forced to weigh in on Blago nonsense
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2885D9B2-18FE-70B2-A897EBC2100E761A

The Narcissism ClassIt's an epidemic in politics & business. Right, Rod?http://www.nypost.com/seven/12122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/nuts_galore_143737.htm