UAW will not budge

Better BUCKLE UP! Bumpy Road Ahead! (Tomasito photo)

UAW Won't Knuckle Under!

(NEWS ITEM: The United Auto Workers union will not give up anything!

They insist on continuing on the way they are now and want the US government—the taxpayers--(car owners or not) to “bail them out” with billions of dollars to continue their current lifestyle.)

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Oh, UAW!

WON'T you knuckle under?!

All of your American auto workers are going to have to change their ways soon anyway—and you union leaders, you abject spongers on the real workers—are going to have to change your lavish lifestyles too.

You WON'T knuckle under and you'll kill the auto industry in the country where it all started—the Good Old USA!

Well, nothing lasts forever and the American auto workers, the envy of working stiffs around the world for their wonderfully high salaries, nice vacations with pay, cushy retirements and their excellent medical benefits --(Oh, won't their doctors be sorry to lose all that MONEY?!)-- will have to learn to do with less in their lifestyles.

Oh the MALL closures! The acres of stuff unbought for lack of funds! The tons of junk left on the store shelves! The Chinese merchants wondering why the Americans are not buying their poorly made, guaranteed to wear out quickly, rubbish!

Oh, the HOUSE foreclosures! And the ballooning credit card debt and the...oh, my!

I guess American workers, even pampered auto workers. are going to have to realize that they are not so very special after all.

The working stiffs of Guatemala and India and Korea, Mexico, Thailand and possibly even Switzerland are all just about alike. Sort of like you and me.

We might as well get used to the idea.

Tomasito, 2008

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