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Edited on Thu Dec-11-08 02:10 PM by SidneyCarton
I had the opportunity to hear this “public servant” on NPR last night and I have to admit, within a few moments of hearing him talk about the auto-maker’s crisis I had to seriously wonder at the mental health of the good people of the South Carolina electorate. According to the “esteemed gentleman” from South Carolina the primary problem with the Big 3 is the UAW. Yep, it’s all the unions and those greedy worker’s fault. If they would only work for a pittance, do without health care and have the good graces to die quietly when they get sick, then all would be well with the world. Indeed, to hear Mr. DeMint talk, one would assume that the only thing keeping Detroit from full solvency is the continued existence of an organized workforce. Never mind the fact that management for these automakers basically decided to build cars on the assumption that Gas would always cost about $1.00 a gallon, and that the CEO’s of these groups continued to be paid several times what their contemporaries in the Japanese auto industry made, while their companies suffered billion-dollar losses. Never mind the fact that while Mr. DeMint’s party was in the majority Congress did nothing to encourage the auto industry to focus on greater fuel efficiency or alternative fuel designs. Indeed, the Republican Congresses did everything in their power to discourage such activity while doing their utmost to encourage Americans to buy the gas-guzzling behemoths that Detroit churned out.
The auto-maker’s current problem is the outcome of the incompetence of management Mr. DeMint, an incompetence which you and the members of your party through their slavish loyalty to the principles of greed-driven economics created. But by all means, go on blaming the workers, Mr DeMint, why should we be shocked? After all it has been the avowed goal of the Republican Party to destroy organized labor since the beginning of the 20th Century. To reduce those of us who work for a living to a level arguably equivalent to that of the slaves which your state left the union in order to keep in 1861. Seriously, this man is raving fool, the fact that the good people of South Carolina continue to return this man to office makes me wonder if the old joke regarding the Palmetto State is true, that South Carolina is really too small to be a sovereign republic, but too large to be a mental institution.
Edited for spelling.
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