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Rant on.
I see the bailout for the auto industry fell flat. But.
It looks like some a-hole members of congress are trying to blame loyal American labor again.
The bottom 16 percent of the collective wealth have to furnish all the manpower and also concede - yet again?
Give me a break. 
So Labor makes up a paltry 10-15 percent of the cost of autos and this is where the deepest cuts have to be made? The American workers have already gone backwards for the last 20 years. American Honda and American Toyota workers wouldn't even get close to their wages if it weren't for UAW standards. Try more like wages at McDonalds. The elite upper 20 percent crust in this country has a lot of crust.
We have to "take care of business" because it generates jobs? Business investment owners NEVER generate jobs - they fill, or un-fill, voids in consumer demand to their benefit. Consumer demand from mostly the vast working class. Well thanks to gross mismanagement, the American working class soon won't be so vast anymore. Unless there is a huge move to citizen oversight (read government regulation). We apparently can't trust SOME business owners to do anything but fill their own pockets and now they are ruining it for everyone.
First of all, the American worker is all of us. There is no significant difference between UAW workers and any of the rest of us blue-collar workers. We are not bad guys. We work hard. The same fine people that work in America are the same people that brought home the Gold from the Chinese Olympics.
The American worker is the same American soldier ready to give his life as a warrior in Iraq and come home to what - some corporate manuver to outwit Labor and "re-structure" major industries to a new low "world standard" labor cost - if any job at all. Any body who disputes this is anti-American - period. Invest in China if you like. You can live there too. Don't expect us blue collar guys to protect you. We will be here defending our own soil.
It's the rowboat scenario again. The guys rowing get 10-15 percent of what they generate and all the blisters. The rest of the wealth goes to the lazy guy at the tiller calling cadence with the bulk going to the boat owner. Well I guess boat ownership is more expensive than I thought. I once heard that a boat, is a hole in the water, into which the owner throws money.
Rant off.
Wes
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