Who’s Kidding Who, Automakers, UAW or Congress…?

In the end, it will be you, I and most Americans screwed again. If the government gives the Big Three Automakers any bailout money regardless of the amount, it will be too little, too late. There’s little doubt more money will be asked for when President elect Obama takes office.

Awe the irony as President Barrack Obama will find himself between a rock and a hard place not to give any requested taxpayer money to the Automakers. America’s new and most charismatic 44th President, will receive on-the-job training how past Associations can shape a man who becomes a President… It’s only one of the young President’s early challenges in his presidency. There will be several at the starting gate.

I have no sympathy for the Automakers who for decades have shown none for the good people of America. Watching the Big Three before the Senate panel reminded me of the times I sat before the finance guy trying to get approved for an auto loan. Or waiting in the Car Dealer Service Center so called Customer Lounge for an oil change that somehow became hundreds of dollars in recommended essentials. Or the time I called ahead for approval on a specific car only to get the Bait and Switch Deal of the Week.

If the Senators listening to the Automaker CEOs were listening. Then they know, only one truth was evident. Once a car salesman, always a car salesman, and how much trust do you have in car salesmen, car mechanics or American car warranties? Not much! Go ahead speak your mind, tell me your story…

Let’s not leave out of this equation the UAW, United Auto Workers, who have abused and misused their once well intended, intentions to Serve the American Auto Worker. Rather the UAW has become a perpetrator. The transparent neglect, greed, stubbornness, laziness, and on, and on of the Big Three Automakers. Is defined by the sum of its Associations, rather its association with America’s, most powerful Organization. The UAW’s bullying and lack of reasonable compromise over several decades has lent more to the Auto industries current predicament then any economic trend.

It’s not the Automaker CEOs that fear the possibility of bankruptcy, it’s their association with the Organization UAW they fear most. Chapter 11 of the Auto industry would offer the opportunity to correct the wrongs and ridiculous limits binding the hands of America’s Big Three, from being as competitive across-the-board with foreign Automakers abroad, and here in the USA.

Doing away with ‘Job Banks, ‘ and over the board healthcare demands for retirees. Automakers could close the gap between hourly wages, healthcare and pension contribution of that used by foreign competitor’s models. Models that support tens of thousands of American Auto Workers, with success.

Congress’s role is to represent the people. And the insane ideology that government should bailout private businesses is wrong and amoral. Amoral because many of our Congressional elects are Pass Hip Deep in Union money, that’s reason enough, you think?

I realize many good Americans and likeminded Duckeons will lose their jobs, most only temporarily, in a pending bankruptcy and reconstruction of the Big Three Automakers. But failure, as all of us have gone through at times in our life, left us with the determination to do better and greater again. I have no doubt about the Auto Industry’s ability to do the same. Nor the Auto Worker caught in the middle between the greed and stubbornness of the Automakers and the UAW. But all will survive, not for the good of all, but for the good of themselves, as it should be. I’m Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason…DQ 112008

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