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Democrats in Congress are trying to prop up the auto industry, now. Oooooo! Shocking! Welfare for everyone! What?! You crashed your car into a tree driving with a 0.52 blood alcohol? Awe, that's a shame! Here! Have a new car. It's not your fault that the big nasty distillery plant in Bourbon County, Kentucky is making fine Bourbon and that the horrible big chain sports bar is making it so available to you.

Let companies fail. If the company is unionized, let it fail twice, if only that were possible.

Propping up failed companies because they were too STUPID to FIRE the UAW is their own damn fault. I don't want a dime of my tax money going to those morons. The unions should pay for their greed, selfishness, and ignorance. The unions ruined my home state. Idiots. Let them fail. It's been going on far, far too long. Clean house. Better yet, raze it. Wipe the lot clean. Sorry for the loss, but digging up a dead guy and putting him on life support isn't going to revive him and all it's going to do is generate billing for the doctors and the attorneys waiting in the wings for something to go "horribly wrong." Jackasses.

The UAW is a gigantic welfare program whose existence is due solely on the size of its membership, not its collective skill, or its intelligence, or its compassion. It exists purely by brute force and numbers for the sake of lining its own pockets, same as those fat-ass executives and their multi-million dollar golden parachutes. The UAW is the bully in the auto industry school yard that takes not only the milk money, but the lunches and the clothing and the dignity of the other kids. The UAW is a fat, bloated, outdated, giant pile of steaming poo that stinks up everything it touches.

I have plenty of friends who are UAW and I give them this same line of reasoning. I love them all because they're friends, but I hate what they've done THEMSELVES to their own companies, their own towns, and their own state. Because their industry is such a large part of our national economy, they may have put a gigantic dent in our whole country's side panels, if not smashed in the driver's side door and fired all the air bags.

Aside from me, how many people do you know who are paid $40 or upwards of $80 per hour to sit around for months when there are no projects on the horizon? Usually that means you get laid off or let go. Usually that means you go find another job or another line of work. But, if you're UAW, you can just exist and damn self improvement or any kind of drive for advancement. What's the incentive?! It just shows up in your lap. Idiotic. Complete idiocy. You could, however, apply the principles of a child rearing self-help book to the UAW. Skip to the chapter about dealing with SPOILED SELFISH BRATS.

It isn't rocket science. The auto industry in the south is doing OK, considering the economy, because they have normal, upstanding and proud workers who understand that being paid $47 an hour for putting four bolts on an car chassis, while dreamy, is ASININE!!! Pull your heads out of your asses, UAW, GM, Ford, and Chrysler.

The market MUST self-correct. It's what happens. It's how systems learn and grow. It's natural. The guy in the example above who hit the tree and wrecked his car and potentially his or someone else's life shouldn't be coddled. He should be punished. It's correction. Negative reinforcement or positive reinforcement is the question. The question is why isn't there ANY reinforcement at all?!

Michigan and the communities in it, the state in which I grew up, regardless, needs to put back into line.

How long has GM had plants in other countries and especially in the south of the US?! The Saturn plant has cost GM millions and millions in stoppages because of selfish, spoiled auto workers who are members of the UAW. So, apparently geography doesn't necessarily enter into the equation. The common thread is the DUMBASS unions. Auto companies in the south are doing well because they've managed to avoid unionization, despite those assholes at the UAW trying to convert them into UAW plants. The UAW has failed repeatedly at organizing most U.S. plants owned by overseas automakers. Their strategy is to spend lots of time and money wooing workers and persuading them to sign membership petitions. Fortunately, those tactics don't work down there because, one might assume, that people see what's been happening to Detroit. I would also like to think that the people in the south who have ignored the UAW's attempts to assimilate them into the collective have great pride in their work and a good sense of wroth and work ethic.

I will say it again, as much as I hate for communities and people to suffer, let them fail. Let nature take its course: The big fish finally keels over and dies and becomes food for the smaller fish who are then given more of a chance to thrive. It's natural. Let it go and do what it will. If you believe in Darwin's theories, you can apply the same reasoning to business and when you look at it in that paradigm through history, you see it works.