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The New THOMA$ REPORT on Monday, December 22, 2008 3:05:39 PM
Where automaker laid-off workers continue to be paid as is they were still working. So what’s the purpose of laying them off? I thought it was to relieve the employer of the cost of their salaries. But not according to the auto unions. Apparently they think, as do liberals and Democrats, that these companies are not in business to make a profit, but are there simply to create jobs. That is an asinine thought, and anybody who believes it should be "tarred and feathered." This is one of the main reasons why automakers are in so much trouble, and throwing more money down their dark hole is not going to solve their problems, most of which are caused by such things as this “job bank” and the extremely high pay they’re agreed to pay their workers, which is slowly (slowly?) pricing them out of the market while foreign makers pay a lot less and undersell them. Paying workers NOT to work is about as silly as paying farmers not to farm. But our government still does it, to our detriment. Apparently they haven’t learned their lesson. You know, the simple one that paying people not to work just doesn’t work. It’s stupid. The whole idea that people will not buy a car made by a company in bankruptcy is just as stupid. They continued to fly on airlines in bankruptcy, didn't they? And those airlines were soon out of bankruptcy, weren't they? (
Heritage Foundation)