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To: Joe NYC who wrote (439907)	12/12/2008 10:10:55 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573733

The group came close to agreement, but it stalled over the UAW's refusal to agree to wage cuts before their current contract expires in 2011. This is it. This is the key issue. They want us to feel sorry for all these people who are going to be out of work and give over our taxpayer dollars to help THEM. Yet, they won't even give anything themselves! Amazing. As a taxpayer I'm ready and willing to help -- but only when the UAW agrees to take serious cuts from the $150K/year labor cost they have saddled the auto industry with. I would say most Americans probably feel the same way. But most Americans don't make 150K; asking them to bail out the UAW is sort of ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, they can all sit on the sidelines if that's what they want. If they take us to another Great Depression, which could happen, then their soup lines will be a long as everyone else's.