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Typical republicans…

Well…as I do these things every day, I just shake my head at the shameless repubs and the damage they are causing to the US. The latest one is a huge gift to their corporate masters and VW in particular by changes to the class action suit that would make it almost impossible to continue to hold corporations responsible for their misconduct and the individual damage they do to consumers. In VW’s case, the damage was done to people who bought their cars and saw the value of them destroyed by the emissions cheating that VW admitted to….but the repubs want the class action suit laws changed to say that you have to have actual physical damage to be able to file suit and that every case has to have the same physical damage to be granted class action status…so that would mean that if VW made a car that had defective brakes and lots of people got into accidents and were injured, it couldn’t be considered for class action unless everyone broke the same arm or had the same ribs broken; something that would never happen in the real world. This is your modern repub party folks…protect the corporate “people”  and screw the real ones…

Volkswagen is a cheater..

Well…in this age of computer run cars, I guess this had to happen….the other day, it was discovered that Volkswagen used the computer software that runs their engines to cheat the EPA tests in their diesel cars sold in the US. The software was so sophisticated that it could tell when the engine was being tested and put in the pollution control protocol when, all the rest of the time, the engine would run basically without pollution controls, spewing from 10 to 40 TIMES the pollution that it was certified for. It was also revealed that there are almost a million cars with this software that are polluting our air…and the funny thing is the CEO of the company doesn’t know anything about it…okay, that was sarcasm…I just wonder why they would want to do this..better mileage? Okay, I am having a hard time working up outrage when this crap happens all the time…corporations are not people…but who are the people behind this? Nope…no outrage…damn…I wonder if my outrage meter is broken?  Geez…

Stupid, stupid Republicans…

Well…as the repubs continue to gloat over defeating the union drive at the VW plant in Kentucky…this neat little tidbit came into the news this morning…the head of the union that represents workers at the plants in Germany said that there are now talks to possibly stop manufacturing in the US…and to certainly not expand production here…so, just to spite the unions here, the repubs have basically scared VW away from expansion and the prospect of thousands of new jobs is now gone….these idiots really thought, in their delusional minds, that VW would thank them for killing unionization even when VW told them that they wanted a union in that plant and that they are more profitable and efficient when they have a union shop. And, VW also understands that when their workers are paid fairly, they have enough money to buy their products and the entire economy benefits, not just the 1%. That is one of the major reasons why Germany is still a manufacturing powerhouse…workers and management work together to face the realities of the economy and share in the pain and gain…not the economy that the repubs want here…that the 1% gets everything and the workers get crap…geez…

The stupid runs really deep in Kentucky…

Well…as time goes on, I am more and more amazed at how stupid the workers in repub areas are….this was shown this past week when the workers at a VW plant in Kentucky voted to not unionize even though VW wanted them to to bring the plant in line with every other VW plant across the world…and a big part of it was the outside money and interference in the election by elected officials across Kentucky. So, these idiots in Kentucky think that it is better to have no say in their wages, working conditions, and problem resolution? How brainwashed must they be to believe the crap that the repubs were spewing…the lies that one of their senators in particular spread…that VW would not have any new products built at the plant if they unionized…something that VW flatly denied? I am stunned that these folks are so steeped in the Fox news propaganda against unions across this country…unions, by the way that built the middle class and without which, the workers at that VW plant would be making half what they make now…does that make them takers? I think it does…geez…

Isn’t this illegal?

Well…int he runup to the union vote at a VW plant in Tenessee, the righties are out in force basically threatening the workers and even VW if they approve UAW representation. My question is: isn’t this illegal? Almost every repub in Tennessee has weighed in…threatening VW that they will never get another tax break if they go along with the unionization…even though VW has seen how well the “works council” relationship has worked in Europe and really do want the same kiind of relationship with their workers here in the states…but, have also threatened workers with retaliation if they vote for the union…now, I am pretty sure this is against the law and I can’t wait until a complaint gets filed with the NLRB and the lawsuits start to fly. These idiots in Tennessee have said that they will not approve any more tax breaks for the expansion that VW is planning…so, let me get this straight…if their workers vote to improve their work lives, the repubs will attack workers just to spite them and drive any new VW plant to Mexico?  This just shows you again that the repubs don’t give a damn about the workers in their states…just about the ideology that cuts workers wages and say in the workplace…but, this time, they don’t even have the support of the company in question…why don’t they just leave them alone and let the company do what it thinks is right? Geez…