Funny how these people that warn that if you don’t bail them out ASAP they’ll collapse, always seem to have money to burn while begging for our money. The United Autoworkers will run pro-bailout ads in multiple states in an attempt to guilt Americans into saving the industry for the umpteenth time.
He also said the union will run a television ad in Maine, Kentucky, Indiana and Minnesota to put the faces of union workers on the controversy over the loans. The ads presumably are designed to pressure Congressional opponents of the loans.
I can picture them now: Those lovable autoworkers putting vehicles together to lovely music while the commercial warns Americans that the U.S. will fall into a deeper recession, nay, depression if we don’t quickly cut them a check for $34 billion. We might even get a bit of how crucial they were during WWII and how important they supposedly remain to our national security. Prepare for a guilt/scare fest.
Meanwhile, Democrats say that they don’t have the votes for a bailout. Not too surprising considering that 61% of the population, according to a CNN poll, is “dead set” against one. Good.
by Stephan Tawney on Wed, Dec 3, 2008