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    Image of Parah_Salin Parah_Salin
    10/21/09

    In reply to Rich Guys Who Got Federal Money Won't Get Richer This Year
    Maybe these companies will qualify as charity recipients, and Goldman and the rest will throw a few coins their way as a small thank-you. #bailouts
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    10/21/09

    In reply to Rich Guys Who Got Federal Money Won't Get Richer This Year
    Sounds about right to me. #bailouts
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/21/09

    In reply to Rich Guys Who Got Federal Money Won't Get Richer This Year
    Good.

    (and maybe good for Goldman - quality books of business will move to a firm that can pay for them) #bailouts
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Not that surprising. There was a shortage of road salt last winter.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @CaptainFantastic: there will probably be a shortage of road this winter, so it all evens out.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Posts like these always brine me joy.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    07/10/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Posts reminding me of my new reality leave me more than a little salty.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/10/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Sodium it goes.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    They only stole the amount of salt necessary to pour in America's economic wounds.
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    07/10/09

    @resipsaloquacious: That's not kosher.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Taking the train down from Connecticut from a shoot, I actually saw a hobo camp under a bridge. There were those wooden crates and a hobo-fire; it looked like a movie set. I was looking for a polka-dot 'kerchief tied to a stick.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    07/10/09

    @HiredGoons: It's called a bindle! Get used to the name. It's the future "The Way We Live Now"!
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    Hey, people without drivers' licenses can still enjoy life. We just do it by cutting our toenails and commenting on Gawker.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @DahlELama: drinking Popov alone and crying to Roy Orbison...Pinochle...
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/10/09

    In reply to Now Theft-Worthy: Salt
    All this bad news. When it rains, it pours.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @Aaron Altman: when it reigns, it poors?
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    07/10/09

    @HiredGoons: Next we'll be stealing Ivory Soap, coz we're 99 44/100ths percent poor.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight:

    We've got 99.44% problems, and a salt lick ain't one?
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    07/10/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: take a lesson from 'The Simpsons,' you can make a new soap from the slivers of the old ones.
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    Image of katastic katastic
    07/10/09

    @Aaron Altman: America is really getting NaCled and dimed.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    06/03/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    @PontiusPirate: I agree. If my interpretation of your comment is correct: that unions are basically obsolete with the enforcement of reasonable labor/safe-working-conditions legislation.


    @EVERYONE: Of course, this certainly doesn't help: [www.pbs.org]


    Basically: Both sides share responsibility, or lack thereof.


    Sí, se puede?

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    Image of garbanzo314 garbanzo314
    06/02/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    I'm not a fan of unions because they extort companies to play ball with them. I'd rather that unions be positioned vendors: if they offer good quality product at a fair price and exhibit flexibility, they win the business. If not, their customers (companies) go elsewhere. This way, unions have clout, but not absolutely so. The problem is that the UAW-automaker relationship has been asymmetrical, in that unions could be horrible providers of labor, but the automakers had no ability to switch labor providers.


    It's not about the little man versus the big corporation. Unions distort what should be a normal "reward for performance and risk for nonperformance" dynamic that everyone else outside of the union faces on a daily basis. If there is no downside to union workers, what incentive do they have to be productive, create quality work product, etc.? Judging from what I've seen of union shops, the answer is none. Most do their eight and hit the gate.

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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    06/02/09

    @garbanzo314: I'm not a fan of unions because they extort companies to play ball with them

    Then you must really hate executives. Which I think is taking things a bit too far.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/02/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    Mmmm...wide-track cars....
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    06/02/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    the more people argue over general motors' failures, the more depressing the whole thing is. i've had several gm cars that i have loved and i'm only 26 years old. please make the system work, the feeling of driving something well-made by workers who can support their families is infinitely superior to bloviating pedants and their reasons for this or that.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    06/02/09

    @shostakobitch: I have to ask the question; if you are only 26 years old, why have you had "several" cars? I'm 28 and I've had a few. The reason I've had a few (as opposed to, say, one or two) is because they broke down and died, and I had to replace them.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    06/02/09

    I've had 4 GM cars, none of them "died" and I switched up for reasons too boring and expository to go into here:

    -1986 GMC Suburban

    -1967 Chevy pickup

    -1979 Corvette

    -1999 Pontiac Grand Am


    I currently drive a Ford. I drive a ton, at least 30K miles a year, and have few complaints.

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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    06/02/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    It's a fact that if your competitors have significantly lower OpEx (labor costs being a huge piece of that), then your days are numbered (unless you can get those costs down). Union's inherently block you from lowering your labor costs.


    Micky Kaus is not far off - or is Gawker suddenly a Labor Relations thinktank?

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    06/02/09

    @PontiusPirate: yes, fair enough point, but it's not exactly the only fucking reason gm is failing like a mofo, now is it?
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    Image of pacific_reporter pacific_reporter
    06/02/09

    In reply to Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
    Pareene, verily you are a master of twisting other people's arguments to make them sound as crazy as you'd like. Kaus's argument in his latest piece never appears to be that unions are totally to blame. He readily acknowledges that the domestic car companies are turning out junk. His argument is that (1) GM will not be successful long term without reduced labor costs (in addition to appealing product); and (2) that the administration is asking people who don't earn anywhere near $28/hr. (the taxpayers who will ultimately pay for the auto bailout) to shoulder the cost so that those people who do earn $28 won't have to accept paycuts. Disagree you may, but Kaus's argument is not absurd.
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    Image of Pareene Pareene
    06/02/09

    @pacific_reporter: my point was basically that mr mickey kaus blames unions for everything wrong and bad, in the world. and that in this case, as in most cases, that is a ridiculous oversimplification, and the motives of anyone who'd indulge in that oversimplification OVER AND OVER AGAIN are pretty suspect.
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