funny but true Options

[UNDEAD]

http://msunderestimated.com/SNLBailoutSkit.wmv

SNL did a "Bailout" skit, which has created some rather awkward problems for NBC. They spiked the video and tried to shut it down on the Internet. But aha, there's still some sites that have it.

[Blitz]

A little reality check for the recession...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/its...ion_really.html

Does everyone forget the higher unemployment, huge interest rates, overbearing taxes, and the energy crisis in the late 70's and early eighties?

The real crisis is the % of gov't spending in relation to GDP.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20t...tury_chart.html
This is what is putting the government debt, and the interest on the debt will be crushing in the future.

Bush 2. started at 1.7 trillion and the last budget was 3.0 trillion.
Any guess on Obama's budget? 4.0 trillion? More ? Less?

We cannot spend our way out of this, they need to repeal sorbanes oxley, and restructure the accounting laws that the banks were forced to do from the whole Enron mess. We should at least try suspending the laws, and determine if this helps at all rather than printing money.

As far as the Brazil plant.
Yes it is used as a strawman against the unions.
However , I believe none of the Foreign automakers plants are unionized.

The Legacy costs are killing the big 3.
The Jobs bank is as well. http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0.../A01-351179.htm

I'm sorry, but any industry should be pushed (by the consumer) to build new technology and innovation to deliver a better product with better cost, and with greater speed to the consumer.
If you have an anchor like the union demanding exactly what a person can and cannot do you cannot deliver and be competative.

Just try and go to a trade show and move a wall in a booth, hang a light, carpet, anything, and see what fine the union hits you with for taking away a job. because you wanted to get it done before the show was over.

The unions were a great thing when people were getting crushed in machines on a daily basis, we now have OSHA monitoring all of these things.