I do not like the idea of giving money to the big three automakers. I think we do not have much choice. We need to save them. We can not afford to have them go down at this time.
The Republicans, some of them, are willing to destroy the big three American car makers if they can put a stake through the heart of the labor union movement. This would be a repeat of PATCO for Republicans.
In 1981 the PATCO union went on strike. President Reagan fired the 11,345 air traffic controllers and decertified the union.
Republicans and anti-labor, anti-union people loved it and loved President Reagan for doing it. It sent a message to big corporations that it was open season on the union movement and unions got hit time and time again over and over again because of it.
The United States still has major problems with air traffic control, even now, because of the actions of President Reagan. The air traffic controllers got a new union in 1987 called the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA).
If the Republicans can hit hard the UAW union now this will be a another big win for anti-worker/union Republicans.
I noticed on TV that the Republicans that are anti-union and do not want to help the auto makers are the ones that have non-American car makers in their states. They are willing to hurt the United States in order to help the non-American car makers in their states. The main thing they want to do is deal a PATCO type blow to the UAW.
President Bush can get a few points, and he needs them, with the right and hard core Republicans if he can fuck the UAW union members. Right people are waiting to see President Bush will use some of the money set aside to bail out banks and Wall Street firms to loan to automakers to keep them out of bankruptcy.
Right now the people around him are telling him this is his chance to be like President Reagan. This is his time to pull off a PATCO type anti-worker attack.
They will be telling President Bush to go down in history with the great President Reagan.
What will President Bush do?
