Smart Liberal and Female

So I came across this comment today and I wanted to respond.  I had originally planned on just commenting, but I’ve decided to make it post of its own.  The comment is in response to a prior post about the Big Three Auto CEOs (or wankers as they should be titled) and the Senate Republicans that killed the auto deal. 

To give good story and history…Here is my prior post…

Perhaps a more appropriate title should be:  “Two of the Big Three getting Minuscule Amount of Relief.   I’m still pretty torn about bailing out the Big Three.  I do think their CEOs should be fired.  So should much of their top managers for that matter.  They’ve done a crap job.  They do not deserve the outrageous amount of pay they get nor their bonuses.  However, I do not think putting 3 million more people into the unemployment line sounds like a good idea.

I also find the political posturing that is taking place right now to be a lot more than a little sickening!  Seriously.  Other than DeMint (SC-R), which one of the 5 Republicans making waves about the $14 billion auto bail out said one word about the $700 billion Wall Street bailout?!  Did any of them cry out when AIG continued to party on the tax payers dollars…uhhhh…NO!  No they did not.  Bastards.  And does anyone else find it curious the Alabama senators are so adamant about calling off the bailout???  Isn’t it Alabama that has a HUGE Toyota plant?  Just asking!

I also wonder why no one questions blue collar job loss, but a junk bond salesman loses his job and man oh man it’s a big deal. 

Just one of my many angry rants of today.

Now following is the comment.  I would like to thank crowded hours for posting.  I don’t agree with his/her post.  I think they missed the fundamental point of my post.  However, it does give me the opportunity to crawl back up on my soap box and try to make my point once again.  For that I truly do thank him/her!

Hi Smart, Liberal and Female! Haven’t been to your site in a while so thought I’d see what was on your mind!

Always blaming the Republicans and the CEOs? I find it curious Dems and the media rarely bring up the unions…

No secret that the UAW is holding their employers financial hostage (and by default, the country).

And it’s no shock that unions are going to lambaste the Republicans and favor the Democrat party. The Democrats enable the unions to financially hold the auto industry hostage while the Republicans feel that enough is enough with these unions. The auto industry isn’t failing because of bad leadership. It’s failing because it can’t make a profit while paying all these union full-pensions and ridiculous benefits. I applaud the Republican minority for standing up for what’s right.

Why is it that the Republicans are being demonized as the ones torpedoing this bailout? How about exploring the root cause, which is the UAW that won’t budge an inch. If the auto industry fails, it won’t be the Republican Party’s fault. It will be the unions.

On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats are nothing but paid accomplices. They’re not standing for principle. They’re standing to make a buck or a million. This year the UAW gave $1.9 million to Democrats but only $11,500 to Republicans. Why? Because they knew that the Democrats don’t have a conscience and would support the highest bidder in this battle.

Shameful.

And finally here is my response….

I wouldn’t go as far as saying I always blame the Republicans and CEOs, but when the shoe fits….

Why do I blame CEOs?  Well they are steering the ship so to speak.  When I was in the Navy if a ship ran aground who was responsible?  The Commanding Officer, that’s who!  Why, because ultimately he is responsible for the direction of the ship…much like a CEO.  If the CEO isn’t responsible for the company, its direction, and well being, why on earth are they making so damn much money?  Are they only responsible when things go right???

It really is the HYPOCRACY of it that makes me so angry.  Did we demand employees of Wall Street take pay cuts?  NO.  Did we ask them to make concessions regarding their retirements?  NO!   Did we suggest they should let go of some of their health benefits?  NO.

AIG threw damn parties on our dollar and we gave them more money.  I don’t remember Senate Republicans showing outrage over that.  I don’t remember Bob Corker demanding they tell us when they’d take pay cuts, do you?  I didn’t think so. 

I’m not blaming all Senate Republicans.  I’m blaming a few. In fact I singled out five, which even though your numbers are dwindling I think you will agree is not ALL Senate Republicans.  I even went on to say DeMint has a valid point…remember he didn’t like the Wall Street bailout either.  I’m on my high horse about hypocrites.  I’m on my high horse about the fact that blue collar workers and the unions have to bend over and take it in the ass, yet again (they already made concessions in 2007), while investment bankers, junk bond salesmen, insurance salesmen, and gamblers get a totally free pass.

 As for the union… I know it’s shameful that they are fighting for living wage jobs and decent health care.  Damn them. 

To me that is what is fundamentally wrong with this country.  We value too many of the wrong things.