Now here is a surprise....

[SPF2245]

I love the UAW, what other union has got some of the biggest companies in the world to pay a high school drop out more money then a cop, fireman or soldier (with a college degree???) and that is in less then three years of being on the job.

I would love nothing more then for the Big 3 to go into Chapter 11, tell all the UAW members to leave, don't come back, then and only then I'd give my tax dollar to them to rebuild and hire like Toyota and Honda does, pay them a decent rate ($15-20/hr) and if the company see's a huge profit, pay the employee a bonus (after paying the tax payer back +7% per year). Also, CEO/CFO/VP get's a pay cap of $500K, period. Give them stocks he/she can't sell for 10 years so they have a reason to push for the future not make a quick dime. I think it would work...oh, and tell the dealers if they can not put mark-up on a car, MSRP is it(I stopped buying domestic when I saw my first dealer "mark-up" and they told me the car was "popular"...funny, they had 15 others in the lot, just sitting there). My wifes BMW had no mark up, my Porsche had no "mark up" and my Superformance (hell, how long does the current buyer wait for a new one, I waited months and last time I checked, they along with my other examples are not looking for tax payer handouts) had no "mark up"...GM, Ford and Dodge lost a lot of my money.