just awesome!  I’d LOVE to see the crowd, er MOB, by that signing.  Torches and pitchforks all around!

I always thought that guys who hawked their autographs where hurting for cash as they hadn’t found second career success.  However becoming a senator is like winning the lottery with all the perks and benefits so apparently Bunning is just a money grubbing A%$.

I just heard a U of MD economist say on NPR that the bill failed not because of Republican senators, but because of the UAW’s refusal to accept wage cuts.  I paraphrase his reasoning: Why should the tax dollars of a waiter making 30K/yr go toward bailing out workers making 89K/yr with benefits the likes of which the waiter will never see?

I don’t know enough about economics/labor to evaluate this, but I do understand rhetoric enough to know how well that reasoning is going to go over among the populus. It’s gonna get ugly.

I can’t talk about executive salaries much without sounding like a total socialist. It’s completely outrageous.  Thing is, he wasn’t talking about executive salaries, he’s talking about union labor.  The union wouldn’t agree to pay cuts for its workers, and the bill (he said) failed because of it.

Whether UAW workers are overpaid is an issue I am thoroughly underinformed about.  I just find it interesting that the argument essentially is trying to get labor groups to squabble amongst thenmselves, which to me seems like a lose-lose situation. That’s the part I see as not going over well.

I wonder if, hypothetically, it was the sports industry at issue.  Would the public accept a bailout of the owners whithout demanding that players’ salaries go down?  Apples and oranges, I know…

UAW guy in a job bank: “You cost us our jobs, Senator.”

Bunning: “No, your companies’ compensation packages and shitty cars cost you your jobs.”

As a man from KY and one who has actually sat down and had a conversation with Bunning, the man lost his mind years ago, and we keep electing him. Oddly enough Chris, there’s a lot of complaints about both senators in KY, but we keep electing them. I have no idea why, but we do. I like to think of it as Southern Charm.

Sara says :” Whether UAW workers are overpaid is an issue I am thoroughly underinformed about.”  Do you think that it would be possible to inform your self a little more before putting you two cents in on a complex subject like that ? The Republicans do NOT want you to know that any dollar per hour amount they put on UAW workers’ pay includes all costs paid to retired workers health and pension plans.Notice also that never mentioned is the fact that the state of Tennessee gave Volkswagon over $ 500 million of incentives to locate there,which were taxpayer dollars.Now,because of the world wide economic slow down,the parent company is asking Germany to subsidize some losses.Also never mentioned is the fact that the foreign auto makers have been given over 3 BILLION in incentives by the states and the Federal Government combined to assemble their units in the US,which also has come form our tax money.So,try to keep up to speed before criticizing.All this is nothing but class warfare by the Republican Party against the middle class in this country !