Assembling Two Tons of Glass, Steel and Gas: Why shouldn't it be well compensated?

My father is not a huge fan of the unions and he still believes all those talking points about "legacy" and workers getting paid $70 an hour for not working, but thanks to the information that has come out over the past few weeks, I know this is wrong.

Besides, what could be more important than the responsibility of building our cars?

I would WANT to pay them the best, just as I want to pay my commercial airline pilots the best, and was horrified to hear they were having to take huge pay cuts.

Some things are worth paying a little extra for, and when you are driving down the highway at sixty MPH in a ton or two of steel, copper and gasolene, I have no problem in the world hoping and thinking that I paid the people who put this huge machine together very well.

I can say quite honestly that what I do and have done for a living is quite unimportant in the scheme of things and doesn't deserve the compensation that other professions do.

To be quite honest, I never thought about this issue before this past week. And pilots and car builders are not the only professions that deserve good salaries: teachers, doctors, nurses, so many people who have tremendous responsibility are not compensated enough.

And too many superficial occupations are overcompensated (including mine), such as sports, filmmaking, acting, etc...

Detroit has not done that in decades. They have worked against our National Security interests by lobbying and producing vehicles that are destroying the planet and keeping us tied at the hip to foreign oil dictators.

How does bailing them out change any of that?

jobs and economy in the meantime.

Just look at what we pay teachers, nannies, etc.

Not to mention that if you attack the problem solely on the shoulders of the UAW workers, and, say, cut their salary by 2/3, that still would turn a $50,000 car into an approximately $47,000 car?

These workers are worth it, as they are the basis of the standard of living of the middle class. The middle class exists mostly as a result of the American union movement that got going in the mid thirties and grew to it's peak impact in the fifties.

-90% Jimmy

park yourself on the bank,

divert some into your own pockets.

This thing about earning money through hard work and taking responsibility - it is for the gullible.