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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 27, 2008 5:06 pm) I would have liked to see Senator Corker asking Goldfinger about his UAW golf club at the same time he was asking the CEOs about their private jets. Let's spread the publicity around about the D3 - over the past ten years, while the CEOs were jetting and the UAW was golfing, the automobiles were filled with hard plastic, bad head gaskets, and failing transmissions. Open your wallet, as a taxpayer you must do your civic duty.
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Replying to: cheezhed (Dec 27, 2008 11:31 am) The AMA/UAW is the union/lobby for doctors/rank and files. So they watch over the doctors/tank and files best interests. Did you not read the link? If you wish to refute any of the "PSEUDO FACTS", please bombard me with some logic and or deductive reasoning. The fact that the AMA has and will continue to limit the supply of doctors and therefore some will suffer needlessly and or die is a reality. More doctors, means lower fees/costs and therefore more health care to humans. I know right from wrong. I know that what the AMA does is wrong in comparison to the transgressions (if any) of the UAW. |
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Replying to: iluvmysephia1 (Dec 27, 2008 1:36 pm) As far as not retiring early, I agree thats a fatal mistake. I believe that one has to have outside interests or a hobby. Your GM management going along with it is just silly. Just go into any dealership and tell them some terms which they don't agree with. More than likely your demands will not be met. You will be leaving in the same car you drove in. In any economic exchange both parties must agree that they will be better off and therefore its a bilateral situation. Demanding unilaterally that Iraq be a democracy didn't and won't work. As I recall, the Bulls won 2 threepetes in the 90's (the NBA's greatest era). While a quick first step is vital to getting the defensive player back, you have to prove you can drive before getting respect. Otherwise you will get packed. No disrespect intended, but Payton is no Jordan, or for that matter he isn't even a Pippen. From those below Stockton is my pick of the litter. Karl Malone. Charles Barkley. John Stockton. Gary Payton. Patrick Ewing. Alonzo Mourning. Those aren't just the names of great players, those are the great players that never won a championship in the 90s for one reason - Michael Jeffery Jordan. http://jordanrivas.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/11/1082535-nbas-best-the-jordan-er- a |
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Replying to: marsha7 (Dec 27, 2008 6:13 pm) AIG, Sept. 17, 2008: $85 billion guaranteed by the Federal Reserve. Bear Stearns, Mar. 16, 2008: $29 billion guaranteed by the Federal Reserve MBIA, Dec. 10, 2007: $1 billion from private equity fund Warburg Pincus UBS, Dec. 10, 2007: $11.5 billion from Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, along with an unnamed Middle Eastern investor E*Trade Financial, Nov. 29, 2007: $2.55 billion from Citadel Investment Group Citigroup, Nov. 26, 2007: $7.5 billion from Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Countrywide Financial, Aug. 22, 2007: $2 billion from Bank of America Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund, Aug. 13, 2007: $3 billion from Goldman Sachs and investors including C.V. Starr & Co. and Eli Broad U.S. Domestic Airlines, September 2001: $15 billion from the U.S. government Russia, 1998: $17 billion in loans from the International Monetary Fund Long Term Capital Management, 1998: $3.6 billion from various Wall Street firms Apple, August 1997: $150 million from rival Microsoft (beat Sony Walkman with an IPOD senseless) Mexico, 1995: $50 billion in loans ($20 billion from the U.S. and more than $30 billion from the International Monetary Fund, Europe, private banks, and other trading partners) Salomon Brothers, 1987: $700 million from Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Various U.S. Savings and Loans, 1986-1995: $124 billion from the FDIC Continental Illinois, 1984: $1 billion in capital from the FDIC, which also guaranteed the bank’s $30 billion in uninsured deposits and assumed $3.5 billion of the company’s debt Chrysler, January 1980: $1.5 billion in loans from the U.S. government City of New York, 1975: $150 million from the New York City Teachers’ Union plus refinancing $3 billion of its debt Lockheed Aircraft, 1971: $250 million in loan guarantees from Congress New York City Trusts, 1907: $50 million ($30 million from John Pierpont Morgan, along with other bankers and $25 million from the U.S. Treasury) So whats Apples market share of the MP3 player market? |
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Replying to: tlong (Dec 27, 2008 8:40 pm) As head of one of the nation’s most powerful unions, Gettelfinger doesn’t earn nearly as much as Detroit’s top CEOs. GM’s Rick Wagoner, for example, made more than $14 million last year. But Gettelfinger’s total compensation of nearly $160,000 annually far exceeds the U.S. median gross family income of $61,500 and puts him among the top five percent of all tax filers, according to U.S. Census Bureau and IRS data. And the UAW is anything but poor, with net assets reportedly worth an estimated $1.23 billion. UAW membership has been declining for years, as it has for most major unions, but annual income from member dues, interest and other revenues exceeded $300 million in 2006. Lets seperate the winners from the losers please.
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 27, 2008 11:00 am) The Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center The course is open to all UAW members and retirees, as well as the public on a space-available basis. A fervent naturalist, Reuther personally tagged nearly every tree on the property. Not one was taken down without his permission. http://www.blacklakegolf.com/family-education-center-24/
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 27, 2008 10:36 pm) The UAW lost $23 million on it in the past five years. I wouldn't want my union dues going to pay for that. But I don't golf. 
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 27, 2008 5:06 pm) Lets see if I'm getting this right? They used your money to build that? Then you can use it?
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 27, 2008 11:17 pm) If I'm a Ford shareholder, I don't see a lot of benefit for all the exec perks they get either. Something like the Henry Ford Museum is cool, but that's not supported by the shareholders. I doubt that Mulally went to Ford because they bought him a country club membership. |
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Replying to: steve_ (Dec 27, 2008 10:54 pm) It is funded from interest on the UAW strike fund. |
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