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	<title>Comments on: Red State Senators Give Black Auto Workers Pink Slips While White Collar AIG Execs Get the Gold</title>
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		<title>By: sunshine</title>
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		<dc:creator>sunshine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;That’s my guess too.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That’s my guess too.</p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
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		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Pat Buchanan has been telling us for years that we need to be more protectionist and the Republicans in general have been telling us we’re not patriotic while at the same time they’ve pushed ’free trade’ and now they’re trying to kill the American car companies &amp; unions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When will a Republican say it’s most important to save the American industry and push foreign car companies out?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Isn’t ”Country First” really important?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where’s WalMart’s (not to pick on them) spokesman to crusade for ”Made in America” cars?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pat Buchanan has been telling us for years that we need to be more protectionist and the Republicans in general have been telling us we’re not patriotic while at the same time they’ve pushed ’free trade’ and now they’re trying to kill the American car companies &amp; unions.</p>
<p>When will a Republican say it’s most important to save the American industry and push foreign car companies out?</p>
<p>Isn’t ”Country First” really important?</p>
<p>Where’s WalMart’s (not to pick on them) spokesman to crusade for ”Made in America” cars?</p>
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		<title>By: local43tech</title>
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		<dc:creator>local43tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;my email to Bob “Buster” Corker.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am a union member from Tennessee. I did not vote for “bob the builder”, and he does not represent my values. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Not everyone from the south is anti-union.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://corker.senate.gov/public/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://corker.senate.gov/public/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$350 Billion of the $700 Billion for the bank bail out is lost. Washington expects the people to believe that nobody knows who has it or where it went? I would submit that one does not get to be as well off as Bob Corker by letting billions of dollars disappear. Thank you though Senator Corker, for standing quietly by as the banks lined their pockets while the American worker struggles to survive.&lt;br /&gt;
   While at nearly the same time you vocally and vehemently oppose a loan for Detroit because you are anti-labor. Would bankruptcy/restructuring cost $35 billion dollars in tax payer money? Bankruptcy would probably cut out the investors(even though they knew the risk going in). Is it better to let the middle class bare the financial weight, even as you try to bust the union to cut wages and benefits, further burdening the middle class.&lt;br /&gt;
Shame on you Senator Corker. Shame on you for lying to America. Shame on you and everyone else who had a hand in stealing our money. Shame on you for trying to bust the UAW and hurt the American worker. To hear you berate and condemn the union for an economic crisis they did not make or choose was disgusting to say the least. A bipartisan economic crisis brought about by the policies of you and your ilk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; The voters spoke loud and clear in ‘08. I assure you Senator, the voters will not forget what they have witnessed and we will be heard again. Next election I will be voting strictly anti-incumbent.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>my email to Bob “Buster” Corker.</p>
<p>I am a union member from Tennessee. I did not vote for “bob the builder”, and he does not represent my values. </p>
<p>Not everyone from the south is anti-union.</p>
<p><a href="http://corker.senate.gov/public/" rel="nofollow">http://corker.senate.gov/public/</a></p>
<p>$350 Billion of the $700 Billion for the bank bail out is lost. Washington expects the people to believe that nobody knows who has it or where it went? I would submit that one does not get to be as well off as Bob Corker by letting billions of dollars disappear. Thank you though Senator Corker, for standing quietly by as the banks lined their pockets while the American worker struggles to survive.<br />
   While at nearly the same time you vocally and vehemently oppose a loan for Detroit because you are anti-labor. Would bankruptcy/restructuring cost $35 billion dollars in tax payer money? Bankruptcy would probably cut out the investors(even though they knew the risk going in). Is it better to let the middle class bare the financial weight, even as you try to bust the union to cut wages and benefits, further burdening the middle class.<br />
Shame on you Senator Corker. Shame on you for lying to America. Shame on you and everyone else who had a hand in stealing our money. Shame on you for trying to bust the UAW and hurt the American worker. To hear you berate and condemn the union for an economic crisis they did not make or choose was disgusting to say the least. A bipartisan economic crisis brought about by the policies of you and your ilk.</p>
<p> The voters spoke loud and clear in ‘08. I assure you Senator, the voters will not forget what they have witnessed and we will be heard again. Next election I will be voting strictly anti-incumbent.</p>
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		<title>By: HarpoSnarx</title>
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		<dc:creator>HarpoSnarx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;If “pensions” are the problem why don’t the Red State Gooper fiscal heros forego THEIR federal and state pensions?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let the foreign carmaker graft make up for the loss.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If “pensions” are the problem why don’t the Red State Gooper fiscal heros forego THEIR federal and state pensions?</p>
<p>Let the foreign carmaker graft make up for the loss.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator>reader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I have been confusing myself by feeling guilty for *never* having ever owned a car … and planning never to own one.  It’s nonsense to feel guilty for not doing ’my part’ to drive the economic engine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do/should others feel guilty that they bought the ’wrong’ cars or didn’t buy the ’right’ cars?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;—————–&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unrelated?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are all black now?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are all facing economic suffering because of this insidious hatred and stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;’Other’ morphs into race morphs into slaveholding morphs into underclass morphs into poor morphs into ’unworthy’ morphs into stupid morphs into a comfort of ’justified’ hatred.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just so the ’winners’ can deny their own feelings of fear and anxiety and live in a bubble stolen from the rest of us.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been confusing myself by feeling guilty for *never* having ever owned a car … and planning never to own one.  It’s nonsense to feel guilty for not doing ’my part’ to drive the economic engine.</p>
<p>Do/should others feel guilty that they bought the ’wrong’ cars or didn’t buy the ’right’ cars?</p>
<p>—————–</p>
<p>Unrelated?</p>
<p>We are all black now?</p>
<p>We are all facing economic suffering because of this insidious hatred and stupidity.</p>
<p>’Other’ morphs into race morphs into slaveholding morphs into underclass morphs into poor morphs into ’unworthy’ morphs into stupid morphs into a comfort of ’justified’ hatred.</p>
<p>Just so the ’winners’ can deny their own feelings of fear and anxiety and live in a bubble stolen from the rest of us.</p>
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		<title>By: johnnyb</title>
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		<dc:creator>johnnyb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Giving “black auto workers the pink slip” is a bit of a stretch and taking us down memory lane to the civil rights struggles of African Americans is wholly irrelevant to what’s going on with the big 3.  I’m gonna throw down some opinions here. 1.) There is no guarantee that even with a bailout that the big 3 will survive.  If the business model doesn’t change dramatically, I’m guessing they won’t or  will continue to operate by being subsidized by the taxpayer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2.) Governments role in the Big 3’s decline isn’t being exposed enough.  The big 3 ARE NOT good at building small cars at a profit. They lose $3,000.00 on every small car they are mandated to make to comply with CAFE standards.(which most Dems favor, and most Repubs oppose, I should add.)  The cash cow for the Big 3 is SUV’s and Trucks.  Big vehicles that can transport lots of people and pull boats.  Far from hating on the union guys, me and my center-right friends kept them in business by buying these big vehicles.  I dare say that there aren’t many F-150’s thundering through the streets of suburban D.C. You’ll see lots of Volvos there.  Your side grinned when HUMMER production nosedived since it was “good for the planet.”  Imagine that, a guy working in the truck plant in KY, and a tofu Liberal railing against the behemoths built by Detroit being aligned politically. Politics does make strange bedfellows.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Giving “black auto workers the pink slip” is a bit of a stretch and taking us down memory lane to the civil rights struggles of African Americans is wholly irrelevant to what’s going on with the big 3.  I’m gonna throw down some opinions here. 1.) There is no guarantee that even with a bailout that the big 3 will survive.  If the business model doesn’t change dramatically, I’m guessing they won’t or  will continue to operate by being subsidized by the taxpayer.</p>
<p>2.) Governments role in the Big 3’s decline isn’t being exposed enough.  The big 3 ARE NOT good at building small cars at a profit. They lose $3,000.00 on every small car they are mandated to make to comply with CAFE standards.(which most Dems favor, and most Repubs oppose, I should add.)  The cash cow for the Big 3 is SUV’s and Trucks.  Big vehicles that can transport lots of people and pull boats.  Far from hating on the union guys, me and my center-right friends kept them in business by buying these big vehicles.  I dare say that there aren’t many F-150’s thundering through the streets of suburban D.C. You’ll see lots of Volvos there.  Your side grinned when HUMMER production nosedived since it was “good for the planet.”  Imagine that, a guy working in the truck plant in KY, and a tofu Liberal railing against the behemoths built by Detroit being aligned politically. Politics does make strange bedfellows.</p>
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		<title>By: bobschacht</title>
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		<dc:creator>bobschacht</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey, Jane!&lt;br /&gt;
How does it feel to become one of the Talking Heads on the TeeVee?&lt;br /&gt;
*G*&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bob in HI&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, Jane!<br />
How does it feel to become one of the Talking Heads on the TeeVee?<br />
*G*<br />
Congratulations!</p>
<p>Bob in HI</p>
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		<title>By: siggi</title>
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		<dc:creator>siggi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Race and class can often not be separated, but they can nonetheless be used to divide.  Don’t make this just about race, because it effects all union workers.  I think you are trying to pigeonhole this battle in a way that is not helpful to those workers generally.  The plantation caucus has its agenda and it is anti-black, but it is also anti-union and anti-”Yankee” (and I don’t mean the baseball team) all wrapped up in one big nasty Dixie-crat ball.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Race and class can often not be separated, but they can nonetheless be used to divide.  Don’t make this just about race, because it effects all union workers.  I think you are trying to pigeonhole this battle in a way that is not helpful to those workers generally.  The plantation caucus has its agenda and it is anti-black, but it is also anti-union and anti-”Yankee” (and I don’t mean the baseball team) all wrapped up in one big nasty Dixie-crat ball.</p>
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		<title>By: dosido</title>
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		<dc:creator>dosido</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;and Corker’s name is missing from those listed as holding the press conference…is that because he might be the one distributing the message???  as the junior member of the Plantation caucus?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and Corker’s name is missing from those listed as holding the press conference…is that because he might be the one distributing the message???  as the junior member of the Plantation caucus?</p>
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		<title>By: dosido</title>
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		<dc:creator>dosido</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;dirty dirty dirty.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>dirty dirty dirty.</p>
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