Fucking Sadistic Republicans

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The 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.

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[emmyjag.livejournal.com]

Polls have shown that over half of Americans are against any auto bailout. To be fair, most of the senators were likely voting their constituent's wishes. Which is sort of what they're elected to do.

I think borrowing $15 billion from China to delay the inevitable for 3 months if just throwing good money after bad. People *still* are going to prefer foreign cars in March, so what good would a bailout now be? We'll be paying hundreds of billions of dollars to keep the big three afloat until they can get it together and make a car that people will want to buy. Chapter 11 restructuring makes more sense.

I'm trying NOT to go into cervical cancer
Cervical cancer is the direct result of STD's (namely, genital warts) so....do we need to have the condom talk?

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[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Actually, cervical cancer runs in my family. And no, we don't need to have the condom talk. Old married lady. I've been having bad pap smears for a couple years now and I just had a very bad one.

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Ann, I appreciate you taking up for me. However, rudeness to other posters is out of line.

I assumed Emmy was making a joke about the condom talk and treated it as such.

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