On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 10:54 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Mirror...very well put.

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 10:17 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Look around, yep. Look around at the houses being sold for 30% less. Look around where are we on the forbes list? 391! 397 is the worst. I am sorry i guess there are 6 other places in worse shape. Janesville recovering? Please.

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 9:17 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Some people act as though every person that works at GM has a cabin up north, 2 brand new cars every year, a huge house with a huge mortgage, a boat, 4 wheeler 2 motorcycles, 3-60 inch tvs, and a butler to boot. What is wrong here? The REAL GM people that I know have a house and maybe a car payment. gone are the days of getting a new car every 2 or 3 years, that was in the 70s when cars were cheap, and gas was 75 cents..

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 9:12 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Well Said!

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 8:16 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Maybe some people were wanting to get jobs in the local area, because they actually like living here. Maybe people wanted to stay because their parents are old and need someone to help out and family is important to them. Maybe people wanted to stay because they have a spouse that is in school and needs their support. Maybe people stayed because they have lived here for 50 years!
There are no jobs here....Have you seen the paper? But some people have needed to stay here to take care of other people. Judge not.

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 12:40 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

The problem is that they got to choose. Many of the people who are getting the take it or leave it to Lordstown have transfer requests in for other plants that have openings. Instead GM is forcing them to choose Lordstown. The people that left got their choice. And how many of us could afford a mortgage and rent, and do it all in 2 weeks.

On Laid-off GM workers sent to work at Ohio plant

Posted on May 9 at 12:30 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Tell that to your kids when they come home from school. Hey kids "I gotta move in 2 weeks, not sure how often I will see you". How can anyone move their lives in 2 weeks, most people have houses or apartments that they have a lease or a mortgage on. They don't just get to crash at a friends house and move from place to place. They have responsibilities. Hey, you got 2 days to decide and 2 weeks to be 500 miles from the only place you have called home for the last 40 or 50 years. That might sound cool when you are 20 something hey a new experience. But when you have family, Children in school a spouse, community ties for 50 years come on...

On Running on empty: Workers face future with few benefits

Posted on December 22 at 10 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I Drive only American cars. Yes I am sure there might be parts on some that were not made in America. We have 2 Tahoes, and yes we pay extra for the gas, but we love them. One is a 1999 lest anyone think that I can have 2 new Tahoes. And No I do not work at GM. No one is buying cars now because the government has everyone running scared. The difference is the Japanese and German governments subsidize their automakers.

And the US Senate and House of Representatives made a Mockery of the Working Class in America. Handing over 700 Billion dollars to the White Collar Banking Industry without a question, then balking at the idea of LENDING the money to the Automakers, who have made their money literally on the backs of US autoworkers.

Shame on them, and shame on anyone who thinks that it is OK for a Senator to dictate what we as working Americans should get per hour for our work. Shame on them for thinking they should decide how the Automakers should run their businesses, when they allow AIG Billions of dollars and their executives go off to a $400,000 retreat.

Shame on the Congress for being judgmental from their high horses, waving their fingers at the UAW and saying how dare you want to send your kids to college, buy a house, go on vacation, how Dare you want to secure your future. You are just the working class, how dare you wish for something that WE as WHITE COLLARED WORKERS are only entitled to. Why you do not deserve that you are not in our class, you are workers, you are producers, we have the brains, you do the work......
HOW DARE THEY, HOW DARE THEY USE THE positions that they were elected to by WE THE PEOPLE, and SPIT on the very people which elected them.

When will someone amongst them stand up and say NO MORE, when will we say NO MORE!

On Running on empty: Workers face future with few benefits

Posted on December 22 at 9:18 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Read this article, it was in the Washington post. Noting how the reluctance to help the automakers reeks of class bias. I could not agree more.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...

On Pawnshops, quick loans gaining popularity

Posted on December 22 at 9:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Read what happened to me....at the pawn shop
http://www.biggerstage.blogspot.com/