Comments on: For the Automakers, No Cash Until More Conditions Are Met http://washingtonindependent.com/36311/for-the-automakers-no-cash-until-more-conditions-are-met National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: barb lamont http://washingtonindependent.com/36311/for-the-automakers-no-cash-until-more-conditions-are-met/comment-page-1#comment-36699 barb lamont Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:01:19 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36311#comment-36699 Disasters. Fights are breaking out over Michigan in response to layoffs spurned by Obama's choice for bankruptcy above all other options:<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama</a> Disasters. Fights are breaking out over Michigan in response to layoffs spurned by Obama's choice for bankruptcy above all other options:
http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama

]]> By: Dave Huntsman http://washingtonindependent.com/36311/for-the-automakers-no-cash-until-more-conditions-are-met/comment-page-1#comment-36700 Dave Huntsman Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:42:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36311#comment-36700 One very real concern you are not deal objectively with, either: unions, in particular, how big unions currently operate in this country. <br>My favorite commentaries come from here, Bill Moyers & NOW, Krugman & Friedman. But all of these folks share one huge blind spot: the investigative eye and penetrating commentary they turn on every other aspect of American society they never turn on the union movement as currently run in this country. <br>I want no $$ to go to any companies that leave the same people/structures in charge that got us here. Waggoner was the best (meaning, worst) example: not a victim or sacrificial lamb, he has held the very top jobs at GM (CFO, COO, President, CEO, Chairman) since 1992 .<br>Of the almost two dozen auto companies making cars in this country only three failing companies have one thing in common: a monopoly politically connected auto union, Over decades the same inflexible work rules, pay levels, health and retirement levels, have been imposed via the allowance of a monopoly on workers across each of them. <br>Monopolies are almost always bad; whether Boeing or a single union. Leaving that union structure in place is doomed to fail long-term. Monopoly labor agreements and lack of freedom of workers to choose their own union hurts everyone. <br><br>Dave Huntsman<br>Cleveland One very real concern you are not deal objectively with, either: unions, in particular, how big unions currently operate in this country.
My favorite commentaries come from here, Bill Moyers & NOW, Krugman & Friedman. But all of these folks share one huge blind spot: the investigative eye and penetrating commentary they turn on every other aspect of American society they never turn on the union movement as currently run in this country.
I want no $$ to go to any companies that leave the same people/structures in charge that got us here. Waggoner was the best (meaning, worst) example: not a victim or sacrificial lamb, he has held the very top jobs at GM (CFO, COO, President, CEO, Chairman) since 1992 .
Of the almost two dozen auto companies making cars in this country only three failing companies have one thing in common: a monopoly politically connected auto union, Over decades the same inflexible work rules, pay levels, health and retirement levels, have been imposed via the allowance of a monopoly on workers across each of them.
Monopolies are almost always bad; whether Boeing or a single union. Leaving that union structure in place is doomed to fail long-term. Monopoly labor agreements and lack of freedom of workers to choose their own union hurts everyone.

Dave Huntsman
Cleveland

]]> By: barb lamont http://washingtonindependent.com/36311/for-the-automakers-no-cash-until-more-conditions-are-met/comment-page-1#comment-23878 barb lamont Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:01:19 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36311#comment-23878 Disasters. Fights are breaking out over Michigan in response to layoffs spurned by Obama's choice for bankruptcy above all other options:<br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama</a> Disasters. Fights are breaking out over Michigan in response to layoffs spurned by Obama's choice for bankruptcy above all other options:
http://tinyurl.com/hopelessobama

]]> By: Dave Huntsman http://washingtonindependent.com/36311/for-the-automakers-no-cash-until-more-conditions-are-met/comment-page-1#comment-23864 Dave Huntsman Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:42:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=36311#comment-23864 One very real concern you are not deal objectively with, either: unions, in particular, how big unions currently operate in this country. <br>My favorite commentaries come from here, Bill Moyers & NOW, Krugman & Friedman. But all of these folks share one huge blind spot: the investigative eye and penetrating commentary they turn on every other aspect of American society they never turn on the union movement as currently run in this country. <br>I want no $$ to go to any companies that leave the same people/structures in charge that got us here. Waggoner was the best (meaning, worst) example: not a victim or sacrificial lamb, he has held the very top jobs at GM (CFO, COO, President, CEO, Chairman) since 1992 .<br>Of the almost two dozen auto companies making cars in this country only three failing companies have one thing in common: a monopoly politically connected auto union, Over decades the same inflexible work rules, pay levels, health and retirement levels, have been imposed via the allowance of a monopoly on workers across each of them. <br>Monopolies are almost always bad; whether Boeing or a single union. Leaving that union structure in place is doomed to fail long-term. Monopoly labor agreements and lack of freedom of workers to choose their own union hurts everyone. <br><br>Dave Huntsman<br>Cleveland One very real concern you are not deal objectively with, either: unions, in particular, how big unions currently operate in this country.
My favorite commentaries come from here, Bill Moyers & NOW, Krugman & Friedman. But all of these folks share one huge blind spot: the investigative eye and penetrating commentary they turn on every other aspect of American society they never turn on the union movement as currently run in this country.
I want no $$ to go to any companies that leave the same people/structures in charge that got us here. Waggoner was the best (meaning, worst) example: not a victim or sacrificial lamb, he has held the very top jobs at GM (CFO, COO, President, CEO, Chairman) since 1992 .
Of the almost two dozen auto companies making cars in this country only three failing companies have one thing in common: a monopoly politically connected auto union, Over decades the same inflexible work rules, pay levels, health and retirement levels, have been imposed via the allowance of a monopoly on workers across each of them.
Monopolies are almost always bad; whether Boeing or a single union. Leaving that union structure in place is doomed to fail long-term. Monopoly labor agreements and lack of freedom of workers to choose their own union hurts everyone.

Dave Huntsman
Cleveland

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