Michael T. shared this article with me yesterday and I thought it was worth some space on the Blog. We raged against Caterpillar and the UAW over 10 years ago that Two Tier Wages would mean the doom of decent wages for not only the next generation ... but our own. I can remember UAW Vice President Shoemaker laughing at me, calling me naive to think that the stupendously huge numbers of Ford, GM and Chrysler auto workers would EVER have to be concerned. Now who’s laughing?
I’m also more than disgusted with the language used in some parts of this article that serve to belittle the working class. Lucrative Buyouts? Just count the number of times the word lucrative is used in this asinine article to explain the selling out of all current and future generations of auto workers. What is so lucrative about $140,000? That is less than 2 years wages for many of the upper tier of skilled workers and probably less than a years wage for the moron who released the press statement for GM. It is a terribly cheap price to sell ourselves out for.
The goal is not to reduce headcount but rather to bring in new workers at a lower cost. That says it all. A small price to pay to create another industry of wage slaves. The article goes on to bemoan the continued decline in sales and profits. Duh? What morons and idiots run this dump if they don’t understand cutting wages in half only means that many more people who can’t afford to buy their cars? The fools don’t even have sense enough to take the savings they garner by slashing wages to lower the price of their overpriced gas hogs ... they simply stuff it in their pockets and wonder why all the cost cutting doesn’t generate more sales.
In this file photo a Chinese woman wearing a masks against SARS walks past a “Don’t Spit” campaign poster in Shanghai May 16, 2003. Less spitting, better queuing and cleaner streets show Beijing has become more “civilized,” but the city still has to fine-tune its etiquette to attain Olympic standards, Xinhua news agency said Friday, citing a new study.
A very shy guy goes into a pub on Valentine’s Day night and sees a beautiful woman sitting alone at the bar. After an hour of gathering up his courage, he finally goes over to her and asks tentatively, “Um, would you mind if I bought you a drink?”
She responds by yelling, at the top of her lungs, “No, I won’t sleep with you tonight!”
Everyone in the pub is now staring at them. Naturally, the guy is hopelessly and completely embarrassed, and he slinks back to his table totally red faced.
After a few minutes, the woman walks over to him and apologizes. She smiles at him and says, “I’m really sorry if I embarrassed you just then. You see, I’m a graduate student in psychology, and I’m studying how people respond to embarrassing situations.”
To which he responds, at the top of his lungs, “What do you mean $200?!?!”
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Here’s another contribution from my good friend Michael T. I’m not ordinarily a fan of Mr. Bean but you have to admit he has an expressive face!