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Sir;...I don't disagree much with Mr. Masako... But I would say first that you are good to not put it all on the unions the way a lot esses are, and second; that you illustrate how much an anarchy our economy is...Things might be different if the country ran these essential industries rather than the rich generally running the country......If you tell me we actually need all these auto producers fighting for the same market, and I will tell you that you are full of methane, because without control, they all saturate the market with over production and when that happens, the factory can sit, but the people cannot. There is a strong anti union feeling in this country that is really anti democracy... And I have heard it preached by television ministries....And I think the desire is to keep workers from getting the idea that they have a right to a vote... I like a democratic work place, and a democratic society and I accept no substitutes.... All you have to do is reflect on how improved our autos have become in thirty years to realize they are making progress; but at whose expense??? Every foreign factory here means one less US plant... Every new contract means less workers and more worked farmed out....Every year means more machines, robots doing more of the work in air not fit to breath of floors to greasy to walk on, and they don't buy cars, and they don't retire till they cart them off to the junk pile. I have seen the future in those plants, and it is not kind to workers... So I appreciate that you do not put it all on the union... Those people work hard in places I could never wait to get out of, and the more they earned the more uncle sugar took out of them... If the rich paid taxes on their wealth they would have given more care to the way they ran things... But, what are people going to do??? If the Anti Union South breaks the auto industry just because they hate the unions, they are going to find themselves hurt too... But you can't have a half way union country, and no one should have a union; but demand that the government act as our union...It is the willingness of the people to pursue individually those goals neglected by the government in the preamble, that has kept our government alive supplying poorly -only the most basic needs of the people... Where was government when the big three was stuck in the mud, or when the executives were watering the stock, or exporting our jobs??? The government puts it all on Dingle...What jackesses... They should all be crucified... Thanks...Sweeney

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Sir;...There is something else that I would like to mention, and it is how often I have heard bankruptcy put forward was a way to break union contracts, and be rid of legacy costs such as pensions and health care...I think they should do it; and not because it is right to do, but because they can do it... There is no reason for anyone to make a bargain with anyone in this world if one side can unilateraly avoid their obligaton...It takes more than contracts to make a bargain... It takes honor... In our society money has become a fair substitute for honor... People can live without honor, but no one can live without money.... If you read enough into history you see that what we take for granted, primitive people wouldn't have stood for a moment... Even today, in some part of the world, a man might kill his own children if he thinks they have dishonored him, because honor is their economy the way money is ours...Let us kill honor in this society...Let us all run into bankruptcy for protection...Let us all forget our honorably assumed obligations, our marriages, our children, all our oaths... People can live without honor...Thanks..Sweeney

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Hey Byuke. You're the big historian. Remember when George Bush Senior went and visited the Japanese prime minister in 1992 and wound up puking on his foot? He was there, among other things, to beg the Japanese auto industry to take it easy on us. One of the things said just prior to the great reverse peristaltic episode was how huge the difference was between the ratio of CEO compensation and line worker compensation in the U.S. compared to that in Japan. Hint hint. Urp, splat. The U.S. auto industry has failed because of resting on its laurels in a market skewed to the preferences of the chosen ones, i.e., because of that great human failing best characterized by the motto "we don't care, we don't have to." They had it all their way, except for the pesky UAW, and boy they will go to their graves trying to get back at those uppity workers who had the gall to demand a pension when they were too old to work, health care when they got sick, and a living wage while they were healthy enough to work. To those pointy headed liberals and intellectuals who said we want cars with gas mileage that passes the straight face test and don't fall apart after a year or two, they raised their middle fingers, spat out their epithets, and cackled all the way to the bank. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. The truth is, they just plain sucked at what they were doing. End of story. They didn't give a flying you know what as long as they were making money, and they didn't lift a finger to exercise industry leadership. If they had been guilty of that in China they probably would be hauled before a firing squad along with that health ministry guy who took bribes to approve drugs, and they would deserve it. .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. The answer is not to just lend those idiots more money. They all need to be fired and sent to China. The government needs to keep the industry and staff it with entirely new management, with a mandate to do the equivalent of what putting a man on the moon meant to us in 1960. It can be done. It takes will power, national pride, using the gray matter that God gave us, and throwing the bums out.