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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (446762)	1/11/2009 10:19:05 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575181

>>" Are you claiming the burden of pensions and health care do not weigh upon US automakers in a way not felt by the non-union foreign shops? "<< Certainly legacy pension plans (they have been operating almost 100 years) and NORMAL health care plans of most Western societies (with the notable exception of the USA) "weigh" on the US Automakers just as these plans "weigh?" on the foreign guys in their own countries. Should we do what they do in Germany eg...have the government pick them up (pensions and health care) and pay for them with taxes. Isn't it nice that those so called non-union foreign shops in their home countries do not have to worry about those legacy costs for their UNION shops (yes, they are all unionized in Germany, France, Italy, etc). Btw, the Japanese have another way of handling those "foreign shops"...they don't allow them to set up mfg shops in Japan. Now the last UAW contract picked up the health care management and reduced the hiring of new hires to the wages very competitive (isn't starting at $14 per hr enough?) with those foreign shops in our country. Oh btw, do you have any idea how difficult and costly it is to disenfranchise a dealer? Another major legacy issue that the non-union foreign shops do not have. It cost GM over a billion in dealer costs to eliminate Olds.