I just finished calling my senators and congressman in D.C. and hope you all do the same. These talking points by Mr Cockburn and Roberts are right on. Clearly, the aim is to deunionize this country so as to get more wealth in the hands of the few at the top and to do so by making the rest of us yet poorer. Class warfare? Without doubt.

Sir;...I live in the wasteland, and I know it would hurt a lot of people if the big three went belly up, but it is the only quick way to revolution, because the govenment couldn't handle the pensions that they are standing behind, and the people would not be able to stand losing their jobs, losing their wages, losing their health insurance, and their pensions, and the ripple would not take long breaking the government -totally...They better make sure they bring an army to Michigan and Ohio, and disarm those guys, because when they run out of dog and deer to eat they will be looking for human flesh, and my bet is that some of those republican Senators, like Shelby, have got big targets on their backs already... Those people worked long and hard for a whole lot of promises. They have done their part, and if they are any behind the Japenese or Koreans or Germans, I can't say it...All I know is that their product is light years ahead of what it was a few years back...And trust me on this: There is no part of an engine, transmission, carburator, or distributer, even a whole car that I have not had my hands on... I can fix it, but what I have from ten or twenty years ago is junk and antique compared to the product they have now...National health insurance would give them a level playing field, and that is mostly what they need...Buiding cars is hard on bodies...Thanks...Sweeney

Re: michael nola;...The sooner they do that the better...You don't see that is what is happening, but as they have driven down wages and used credit to drain every bit of wealth from the poor to the rich they have also ruined America as a market... We produce little enough, but we cannot buy back a part of it, and if we are gone as a market, so is the rest of the world... Auto workers insurance pays the bills of all who do not, or cannot, pay their hospital bills... What does that tell you if that cost is breaking them??? No union without the power to organize can exist... No number of unions representing roughly ten percent of the population can succeed... It is good for America for people to be well paid so they provide a domestic market... What the rich and the republicans propose, -to trash the union, and union contracts, is more of the problem, and not a bit of the solution... It is the wealth of the rich built upon the poverty of the poor that has tanked this market... Sure, they should have what they want, but only so they have no excuse for being swept away... Like Marx said: every employer wants to pay his workers less, and every employer wants other workers paid more... It is natural, because that creates a strong market, and an easy profit...They have shot their own markets, but they cannot stop beating the workers..Maybe the workers should play possum..Thanks...Sweeney