Problem is that those autoworkers, even as much as they're paid, are having a hard time keeping things together.
Consider this. My father is a Printed Cricuit Board Designer. He is not a guru at the trade, but his name is recognized. When he drops his resume somewhere,
people take notice. He is paid accordingly: never anything less than forty-five dollars an hour. He usually puts in a pretty good amount of overtime too. And
yet, my parents still have trouble making ends meet for one reason or another. I never went to college, neither has my sister, and nor will any of my brothers
unless they pay for it themselves. They're in their fifties and they've only recently been able to start putting away money for retirement. This is, by
no means, due to poor financial planning. It is just life, and it happens.
But mostly it is because I have a large family (something this nation seems to be economically opposed to). Yes, contraceptives were used. All of my siblings
were 'accidents' so don't try and say anything about it. And if anyone even sneezes the word 'Abortion' then fuck you sideways with a
cactus wrapped in razor wire and a three-day-old rubber from a siphilitic whore in New Orleans in the middle of Mardi Gras with a lemon twist. God I hate it
when people take that kind of attitude about population control. Bad enough the Chinese do it.
Anyhow, our grocery bills are monsterous and the recession hasn't helped much. Nor has it helped with the pickings for jobs. And and my family is still
reeling from the dot-com crash because of a foreclosure they endured during that time, to say nothing of the other debts going along with it.
So the next time you want to say "Wahhhh! Auto workers are so greedy!" stop and think about what your saying. These people are trying to put their
kids through college (say about $120,000 per kid for four years, and that's just the tuition), keep a roof over their heads (say about $300,000 on
average?) in some attempt to live a comfortable life (Three cars? I'd say about another 100,000 right there - they get a discount - this totals over
$500,000. Larger than their yearly saleries, no? And to say nothing of every day cost of living.), not vacation in the Hamptons or Fiji or something stupid.
You want to see wastefulness? Go look at the shit upperclass throw out as garbage. Pretty good way to score yourself a new computer or even a sound system.
Some actor blew a few mill to build houses in Louisiana? Hah. I'll be a lot more impressed if he sold off his mansion and lived in a place that, while
nice, doesn't cost well over $500,000. That kinda money will buy you a nice quiet plot of land in Texas with an equally nice house, security to go with it
if you really want it. Airstrip will be extra and you can probably share that with your neighbors, as is the trend these days.
I hate CEOs with a pink and purple passion. These people make so much money and for what? Managing a business so it doesn't go under? I understand that
this is the nature of a corporation. After all, with so many people owning a piece of the action, it makes sense to hire one guy to do the driving. But it
doesn't make sense to pay them millions upon millions for a job an ape could do. Albeit a smart and clever ape, but all the same. I'm pretty sure that
if you present the problems a corporation has to an ape in a way it could understand, then it'll figure out a viable solution, albeit one with a certain
brutal eloquence to it.
Really, what these corporations should have been doing is instead of dumping jobless people into an increasing problem of people not buying things, they should
have taken the hit on their chins like honest business people - in the dividends of their stock. Not like anyone but the upperclass really depends on that bit
of income, and even the richest people have some rainy day funds saved up somewhere in a mutual fund or something that's collecting interest. Not like its
gonna kill 'em overnight to not get paid when their shit doesn't fly right. Greedy fucks.
These are the people that have decided to outsource. They've outsourced our products, our jobs, and some of them even live outside the US as well. After
all, service just as good can be found in a third world nation for a fraction of the cost in America. And in America, everyone but the upper class suffers for
it, because the upperclass have simply taken the money and run.
I don't see any autoworkers taking off for Aruba.
Consider this. My father is a Printed Cricuit Board Designer. He is not a guru at the trade, but his name is recognized. When he drops his resume somewhere,
people take notice. He is paid accordingly: never anything less than forty-five dollars an hour. He usually puts in a pretty good amount of overtime too. And
yet, my parents still have trouble making ends meet for one reason or another. I never went to college, neither has my sister, and nor will any of my brothers
unless they pay for it themselves. They're in their fifties and they've only recently been able to start putting away money for retirement. This is, by
no means, due to poor financial planning. It is just life, and it happens.
But mostly it is because I have a large family (something this nation seems to be economically opposed to). Yes, contraceptives were used. All of my siblings
were 'accidents' so don't try and say anything about it. And if anyone even sneezes the word 'Abortion' then fuck you sideways with a
cactus wrapped in razor wire and a three-day-old rubber from a siphilitic whore in New Orleans in the middle of Mardi Gras with a lemon twist. God I hate it
when people take that kind of attitude about population control. Bad enough the Chinese do it.
Anyhow, our grocery bills are monsterous and the recession hasn't helped much. Nor has it helped with the pickings for jobs. And and my family is still
reeling from the dot-com crash because of a foreclosure they endured during that time, to say nothing of the other debts going along with it.
So the next time you want to say "Wahhhh! Auto workers are so greedy!" stop and think about what your saying. These people are trying to put their
kids through college (say about $120,000 per kid for four years, and that's just the tuition), keep a roof over their heads (say about $300,000 on
average?) in some attempt to live a comfortable life (Three cars? I'd say about another 100,000 right there - they get a discount - this totals over
$500,000. Larger than their yearly saleries, no? And to say nothing of every day cost of living.), not vacation in the Hamptons or Fiji or something stupid.
You want to see wastefulness? Go look at the shit upperclass throw out as garbage. Pretty good way to score yourself a new computer or even a sound system.
Some actor blew a few mill to build houses in Louisiana? Hah. I'll be a lot more impressed if he sold off his mansion and lived in a place that, while
nice, doesn't cost well over $500,000. That kinda money will buy you a nice quiet plot of land in Texas with an equally nice house, security to go with it
if you really want it. Airstrip will be extra and you can probably share that with your neighbors, as is the trend these days.
I hate CEOs with a pink and purple passion. These people make so much money and for what? Managing a business so it doesn't go under? I understand that
this is the nature of a corporation. After all, with so many people owning a piece of the action, it makes sense to hire one guy to do the driving. But it
doesn't make sense to pay them millions upon millions for a job an ape could do. Albeit a smart and clever ape, but all the same. I'm pretty sure that
if you present the problems a corporation has to an ape in a way it could understand, then it'll figure out a viable solution, albeit one with a certain
brutal eloquence to it.
Really, what these corporations should have been doing is instead of dumping jobless people into an increasing problem of people not buying things, they should
have taken the hit on their chins like honest business people - in the dividends of their stock. Not like anyone but the upperclass really depends on that bit
of income, and even the richest people have some rainy day funds saved up somewhere in a mutual fund or something that's collecting interest. Not like its
gonna kill 'em overnight to not get paid when their shit doesn't fly right. Greedy fucks.
These are the people that have decided to outsource. They've outsourced our products, our jobs, and some of them even live outside the US as well. After
all, service just as good can be found in a third world nation for a fraction of the cost in America. And in America, everyone but the upper class suffers for
it, because the upperclass have simply taken the money and run.
I don't see any autoworkers taking off for Aruba.