Thanks for providing the FactCheck link, but I’m still not sure what a UAW member makes.

When I worked for the University of Miami, I made so much per hour, which was multiplied by the number of hours I worked. They then deducted state and federal taxes, health/dental insurance premiums, and parking tag fee (yes, they’re real leeches). I got what was left.

I earned sick days and vacation time, but those were simply given to me as so many hours per paycheck, which added up as the year went on.

So, just why is it so difficult to get an accurate number for an UAW?

It’s starting to sound like auto workers have a pay/pension/medical plan that rivals only what Congress has given themselves.

Has anybody heard about 2 issues that are stumping me:

1) Chrysler’s relationship to its parent: Cerberus Capital Management. If a private equity firm owns 80% of Chrysler, are taxpayers bailing out Cerberus or Chrysler?

2) How come the media don’t remind us what Congress told H.Paulson: the $700 billion was to be used FIRST on the slumping housing market. I thought (help me out here) the $ was for renegotiating mortgages, keep homeowners from defaulting on their mortgages & thus, easing the credit freeze since banks would continue to lend $.

What’s all this moral outrage targeting the UAW if Ford isn’t asking for a handout & Chrysler’s parent co won’t pony up the $ to keep it running?

Shouldn’t we be throwing bricks Cerberus & Paulson instead of working stiffs?

The TRUTH is what really matters.

If you have more accurate and reliable information about a subject brought up here by that commie agitator Matt Davies, do share it with us.

I mean, all we hear is $75 an hour for UAW assembly line workers, and $28,000,000 for Ford’s Alan Mulally. If these figures are incorrect, help determine the truth.

Otherwise, we’ll never progress (like the past 8 years)

That is the figure provided by several reliable Internet news services I’ve checked, including CNN, as well as NBC news.

If you’ve got a more accurate figure, why not give it up? If you don’t help with the problem, you’re just part of the problem.

However, the fact remains: U.S. automakers make crappy, unreliable cars that we don’t want to buy. I will never buy anything other than a Honda or Toyota.

And here’s the kicker: Most of the Honda and Toyota cars sold in the U.S. are MADE in the U.S. While Ford, Chrysler, and GM have outsourced many manufacturing contracts to foreign plants, mainly in Mexico.

As for Rush, Hannity, Bill-O, and the one vile person you forgot to mention – Anne Coulter – the sooner they are fertilizing the Earth, the better. The same goes for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, and the list goes on and on.

Your serve…

The next time you hear something outrageous from Rush, Hannity, Bill-O, whoever, do a bit of goggling to try and ferret out the truth.

-jp

That’s THREE times what a firefighter makes, FOUR times what a teacher makes, and TEN times what an American soldier makes – the people that protect our asses.

All for giving us crappy cars.

By the way, Congress proposed a 3.5% increase in military pay, but the Bush administration objected, and threatened a veto, saying it wasn’t necessary.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/17/bush-military-veto/

Now, THERE’S support for the troops!