12-19-08

SPOOKY TOM'S WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE AFTER ALL!!!!

TODAY AMERICA'S AUTO INDUSTRY RECEIVED THE BRIDGE LOANS THAT WILL HELP THEM TO MAKE IT THROUGH THIS ECONOMIC CRISIS. ALL THREE WERE ALREADY RESTRUCTURING AND CUTTING COST WHEN THE BANKERS SENT OUR ECONOMY REELING. ALL I CAN SAY IS, "WATCH THESE COMPANIES", AS THEY BECOME NOT ONLY COMPETITIVE BUT SURPASS THE COMPETITION. BE WARY OF POLITICIANS THAT ARE SELLING AMERICAN INDUSTRY OUT WHILE LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH ASIAN CURRENCY. I SPEAK OF SOME SOUTHERN SENATORS AND HOUSE MEMBERS THAT ARE WORKING WITH COMPANIES LIKE TOYOTA TO LOWER THE WAGES OF THE MIDDLE CLASS. THEIR GOAL IS TO ELIMINATE THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THUS REDUCE THE MIDDLE CLASS INFLUENCE.

READ BELOW AND GET MAD:

12-18-08

UNITE HERE ON TOYOTA'S LOW-WAGE STRATEGY

IN TODAY'S LOS ANGELES TIMES, PRESIDENT BRUCE RAYNOR OF UNITE HERE EXPOSES THE LOW-WAGE, UNION-BUSTING STRATEGY BEHIND LAST WEEK'S FILIBUSTER BY A MINORITY OF SENATORS AGAINST EMERGENCY AID FOR THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY.
DEMANDS TO "RESTRUCTURE" UAW CONTRACTS, RAYNOR WRITES, ARE LINKED TO TOYOTA'S FIVE-YEAR PLAN -- REVEALED LAST YEAR BY THE DETROIT FREE PRESS -- TO "SLASH $300 MILLION OUT OF ITS RISING LABOR COSTS BY 2011."
THE COMPANY INTENDS TO "BENCHMARK" PREVAILING MANUFACTURING WAGES, WHICH WOULD BE $12.64 AN HOUR IN KENTUCKY -- "LESS THAN HALF TOYOTA'S $30-AN-HOUR WAGE." RAYNOR OBSERVES THAT IF SOUTHERN SENATORS CAN "WIPE OUT OR WEAKEN THE UAW, [TOYOTA] WILL BE FREE TO IMPLEMENT THEIR PLAN."
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, SAYS THE LEADER OF THE UNION REPRESENTING MORE THAN 465,000 WORKERS IN APPAREL, TEXTILE AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRIES. INSTEAD, A LONG-TERM AUTO RESTRUCTURING WILL LEAD TO REAL SOLUTIONS THAT RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF ACTIVE AND RETIRED AUTO WORKERS.
"WHAT THE ECONOMY NEEDS NOW IS RISING WAGES," SAYS RAYNOR. "THAT MEANS STRONGER UNIONS. INDEED, I BELIEVE EVENTUALLY IT WILL MEAN THE UNIONIZATION OF THE ENTIRE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY."


THERE WOULDN'T BE A MIDDLE CLASS OR STANDARD OF LIVING THAT WE ALL ENJOY HAD UNIONS NOT STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE EARLY IN THE LAST CENTURY. BY THE WAY, GM'S LABOR COSTS ARE BETWEEN 8 AND 10 PERCENT AND THE CONSUMER REPORTS HAVE BEEN GIVING THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY HIGH MARKS AND IN SOME CASES HIGHER MARKS THAN FOREIGN COMPANIES. IF YOU THINK FOREIGN CARS ARE BUILT BETTER, DRIVE BY A HONDA OR TOYOTA DEALERSHIP AND SEE HOW FULL THEIR REPAIR LOT IS.

BELOW ARE SOME FACTS!!!

http://gmfactsandfiction.com/
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811170379
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/opinion/l26detroit.html?_r=1

12-09-2008
 NOW IT LOOKS LIKE THE AUTO INDUSTRY MIGHT GET THE BRIDGE LOAN TO GET THROUGH THIS CRISIS. WITH DEMOCRATS IN POWER IT IS TIME TO FORCE OUR SO-CALLED TRADING PARTNERS TO OPEN THEIR MARKETS COMPLETELY. IF COUNTRIES LIKE KOREA WANT TO PLACE RESTRICTIVE TARIFFS ON OUR CARS THEN WE SHOULD PLACE THE SAME TARIFFS ON THEM. THEY WOULD QUICKLY SEE THE LIGHT. REPUBLICANS CALL THIS PROTECTIONISM WHEN WE EXPECT OTHERS TO PRACTICE FREE TRADE BUT THEN THEY DON'T REALLY WANT FREE TRADE BECAUSE THEY ARE BUSY LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH FOREIGN CURRENCY.
 
 I HAVE ALWAYS VOTED REPUBLICAN ON MORAL GROUNDS BECAUSE OF THE DEMOCRAT SUPPORT FOR ABORTION, FEMINISM AND HOMO-SEXUALITY BUT HAVE SEEN SOME EQUALLY IMMORAL BEHAVIOR BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CONCERNING THE VALUE UNIONS HAVE PLAYED TO CREATE A SAFE WORK ENVIRONMENT, LIVABLE WAGES AND THE LARGEST MIDDLE CLASS AND BEST STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. I FIND THE REPUBLICAN DESIRE TO GIVE FOREIGN COMPANIES PREFERRED TREATMENT OVER OUR HOME GROWN COMPANIES AND SUPPORTING THE EXPORT OF OUR ENTIRE INDUSTRIAL BASE TO BE TREASONOUS AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMMORAL THAN TREASON. A NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS AND A FEW DEMOCRATS SEEING THIS SITUATION (THAT WAS NOT CAUSED BY THE AUTO INDUSTRY) AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EMASCULATE UNIONS IS DESPICABLE TO ME AND I HAVE DECIDED TO END MY VOTING IN GENERAL ELECTIONS EVER AGAIN. I WILL NOT HELP THESE TRAITORS TANK THIS COUNTRY AND WILL BIDE MY TIME UNTIL THE INEVITABLE INSURRECTION OCCURS AND WE ARMED CITIZENS TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK.