Opinions on the Stimulus Bill

[Bobblehead]

Calvin & Hobbes take on it (from 15 years ago)

[Daradon]

^^^ There's the auto unions in a nutshell. Dunno if the US public has it in them to be competitive with the Asian companies.

[Devils'Advocate]

Actually, no. Watterson was condemning upper management, not the unions. It's the CEOs that want to maximize profit by avoiding environmental and health laws, not unions. It's CEOs that want to cut expenses to provide crap product/service to the consumers (ever try to reach an agent through 1-888-ROGERS1?).

The difference between unionized shops and non-unionized shops isn't that great in terms of per hour salaries, but there are far more benefits for the unionized workers. I think the US car companies are suffering more because of short-sighted CEOs who didn't put nearly as much resources into R&D like the Asian companies have. A bailout won't help the US car companies produce better cars.

[Daradon]

^^^

There is the part in the cartoon about the worker as well, I think you're projecting your opinions on the cartoon, as evidenced by your further rant in your post. He seems to be criticizing the whole system.

I too have problems with the CEO's and upper management that gets far too much for doing too little and then seems to have no responsibility when things go wrong, but the unions on this continent have it pretty good, particularly the auto union.

[Boblobla]

There are some GREAT comments from this story about Baraks visit to Canada...

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome