Automakers Paying $2 Billion Not to Work

[Rolex]

I yearn for the good old days when you could squeeze past a flight attendant and the cart in the aisle. I don't care if they don't look like Miss America (but Miss July might be nice), but, I swear to God, one woman was so big, she slapped everyone sitting in aisle seats on both sides when she waddled down the aisle. Her hips hit the seats on both sides of the aisle, knocking off elbows and glasses, and her footsteps sounded like Godzilla. The plane shook when she walked. She was Fricken' Huge. When she went to the back of the plane, I'm pretty sure some elevator trim was needed.

[lazs2]

As for traveling by air?  A humiliating and dehumanizing experiance that is confusing and boring at the same time...  something that used to be fun that is now something I won't do unless it is an absolute emergency or the only possible way... an experiance any free person would dread.

lazs

[Shamus]

GM will file chapter 11 within 24 months, Ford following shortly therafter.

They both really have no choice. They are old line companies who have made generous promises to thier employees over the decades that they cant afford to keep.

The bad thing is that the pensions are going to be dumped on the taxpayer, granted the pentioner will be paid at a lower rate and will lose thier medical bennies, but at least they will get somthing.

The good thing is that the public employees around here who have been saying "we deserve at least what a factory worker gets" are going to get used to no retirement or medical as well.

Bottom line is it's going to less expensive for the rest of us.

shamus

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by Sixpence
I blame Bush

I am Sparticus!

Karaya

[Toad]

Originally posted by Rolex
I yearn for the good old days when you could squeeze past a flight attendant and the cart in the aisle.

Well, the carts have generally gotten smaller........... now you and the F/A....