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@AMamasBlog Yesterday she grabbed a cookie out of my wife's hand and stuck it in her mouth. Didn't really know what to do with it then.) |
Speaking of unions and change, this is huge in North Carolina: the world's largest pork slaughterhouse voted to organize. http://is.gd/bhLy |
@AMamasBlog I think she wants to walk like Kidrocket and eat like her papa. :D |
@AMamasBlog Agreed. Baby is doing great, except for some reflux issues. And her frustration at not being able to walk or eat a hamburger. |
@AMamasBlog The real solution is to remove healthcare expense from this artificial connection to employment. |
@AMamasBlog Union benefits are bargained-for and agreed-to by the automakers. They aren't complaining to Congress about that. |
@AMamasBlog The healthcare problem is much bigger than this little crisis. |
@AMamasBlog Actually the big elephant is employee pension and retiree healthcare obligations. |
@AMamasBlog I don't disagree that the auto industry needs to change, including the unions. But this is pure politics on the part of the GOP. |
@AMamasBlog The auto industry just wants a loan. |
@AMamasBlog Also, Big 3 are not complaining about wages. They came to Congress because their credit dried up, despite that $Trillion. |
@AMamasBlog I don't see Congress micromanaging the banking industry after pledging a Trillion Dollars to bail it out. |
@AMamasBlog The US bailed out Chrysler previously, in the 80s. Chrysler repaid that loan ahead of schedule. |
@AMamasBlog All this quibbling & complaining over lending $15 billion to Big 3 after hundreds of billions thrown at AIG makes me sick. |
@AMamasBlog It is also completely unreasonable for Congress to be micromanaging the relationsihp between automakers and their workers. |
@AMamasBlog It's totally unreasonable to let 3.3M people lose their jobs because lame duck Republicans want to stick it to the workers. |
@AMamasBlog Clearly the unions need to change and they have been, but starting off by giving up hard-earned wages is completely unreasonable |
@AMamasBlog How reasonable would it be to let Congress cut your income in half overnight? |
@AMamasBlog But the UAW has made concessions every contract renewal for the last decade to help keep the Big 3 afloat. |
@AMamasBlog Seems like the Senate Republicans mainly wanted to put the screws to the unions. They didn't care about compromise. |
