Fucking Sadistic Republicans
Dec. 12th, 2008 06:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdThe Auto bailout didn't pass.
The Republican minority in the Senate killed it as a big "Fuck You" to the American Blue-Collar Worker. For being "Pro American/America first" they surely hate the people who make the country run.
I'm terrified. I may not have a job after the new year. We can't live on my husband's income. I carry the health insurance...and we have 2 mentally ill children, one with bad ears and I'm trying NOT to go into cervical cancer. The local truck lines are laying people off. The freight's not there to move.
It isn't just Michigan that will be affected.
The sheet metal stamping factory in Twinsburg OH, the manufacturing center in Belvedere IL, the plastic company in Mishawaka IN, the brake maker in Cincinnati OH, the Youngstown OH location, the assembly plants (there are 4) in Shreveport LA... Every one of those is going to go down if GM folds.
There are nine little family-owned dealerships I deliver to. The other driver on my linehaul has 16. Multiply that by 300 throughout the south, not to mention our office support staff... We're talking about 30,000 people. And that's just GM!
On a day when the Shrub looks like my last, best hope, I'm feeling very damn desperate. That's like depending on Charlie Brown to actually win a ball game.
The Republican minority in the Senate killed it as a big "Fuck You" to the American Blue-Collar Worker. For being "Pro American/America first" they surely hate the people who make the country run.
I'm terrified. I may not have a job after the new year. We can't live on my husband's income. I carry the health insurance...and we have 2 mentally ill children, one with bad ears and I'm trying NOT to go into cervical cancer. The local truck lines are laying people off. The freight's not there to move.
It isn't just Michigan that will be affected.
The sheet metal stamping factory in Twinsburg OH, the manufacturing center in Belvedere IL, the plastic company in Mishawaka IN, the brake maker in Cincinnati OH, the Youngstown OH location, the assembly plants (there are 4) in Shreveport LA... Every one of those is going to go down if GM folds.
There are nine little family-owned dealerships I deliver to. The other driver on my linehaul has 16. Multiply that by 300 throughout the south, not to mention our office support staff... We're talking about 30,000 people. And that's just GM!
On a day when the Shrub looks like my last, best hope, I'm feeling very damn desperate. That's like depending on Charlie Brown to actually win a ball game.
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Date: 2008-12-12 05:44 pm (UTC)But honestly, I don't feel sorry for the Big 3 at all. The auto industry's known for years that this gas-guzzling SUV juggernaut couldn't last forever. They sat idly by while Honda and Toyota ate away at their market share and developed hybrid technology. They could have been much more pro-active about upgrading their product for the future, and instead they chose to do nothing. Frankly, I think these companies deserve to fail.
However, I do feel sorry for all the innocent workers who'll be left out in the cold if they do collapse. For that reason alone, I hope the Bush White House gets off its lame-duck ass and rides to the rescue. I hope they aren't cynical enough to put millions of people out of work just so the Repugs can torpedo Obama's presidency before it even gets started.
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Date: 2008-12-12 10:34 pm (UTC)I am NOT a fan of SUVs. (We call them PSVs--penis substitute vehicles)
But the smaller stuff has been on the drawing board. They just can't get it out before 2010.
Like I said, a day when George Bush looks like my last best hope to stay employed and keep my health insurance... AUGH