A Dagger the Heart of Organized Labor
Killing the Auto Bailout
By DAVID MACARAY

So the proposed bailout of the auto industry is off the table. . . at least until after the Christmas recess, which, given the grave condition of the industry, could be a death sentence. The Republican Senate killed the proposal. Now we all get to wait around and see what happens next. General Motors has already announced that without the injection of needed cash, it will very possibly face bankruptcy, and Chrysler could be close behind.

The real reason Senate Republicans were so committed to wrecking any rescue plan for the Big Three automakers, despite what they preached, had little to do with their concern for the American taxpayer. Obviously, their continued willingness to support the unconscionably expensive and wasteful Iraq war, and to say yes to every new-fangled weapons system that comes down the pike, shows what they think about assigning financial burdens to the American taxpayer.

No, this defeat had little to do with fiduciary integrity. Rather, the Republicans’ torpedoing of this proposal was done because they despise labor unions. They despise everything unions stand for. Southern Republicans despise organized labor for the same reason Southern Republicans despised the civil rights legislation of the 1960s—because it interferes with their “right to choose.”

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