A hard fight, but well won:
A bailout-weary Congress killed a $14 billion package to aid struggling U.S. automakers Thursday night after a partisan dispute over union wage cuts derailed a last-ditch effort to revive the emergency aid before year’s end.
Republicans, breaking sharply with President George W. Bush as his term draws to a close, refused to back federal aid for Detroit’s beleaguered Big Three without a guarantee that the United Auto Workers would agree by the end of next year to wage cuts to bring their pay into line with Japanese carmakers. The UAW refused to do so before its current contract with the automakers expires in 2011.
This is what we should have been doing for years now – the Democrats wish to use the taxpayer’s money to help their friends and over the next two years they will be able to do a lot of it, but there’s no reason for we GOPers to be stampeded in to helping the Democrats swindle the American people. When it comes time to pay the piper, lets not have our Republican party picking up the Democrat’s check.
As an aside, its gotta hurt to be a Democrat just now – Obama can’t even get in to office without scandal dogging him, Democrats lose in Georgia and Louisiana and now their corrupt union buddies are hanging by a thread. It wasn’t supposed to be like this is The One Era. Guess Democrats still haven’t realized that they’ve got no ideas, are mired in corruption and are generally just barnacles on the ship of State. It was going to be a long four years for Republicans, but I’m feeling very jazzed up right now.
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