Save the Automobile Industry

Today's Link
Little Red House

Saying for the Day
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
~Sam Ewing

Picture of the Day
Soon a Mantle

It looks like Congress is going to bail out the automobile industry by giving them tax payer money with very few strings involved.



That’s your money and my money they are giving away.
Now I’m not against saving the automobile industry. In fact I’m all for it. But we need a plan or just like the banks they will be back for more.
I have a bail out plan.
First all executive contracts and salaries have to be cancelled. We have to start with a clean slate.
Then the industry has to agree to a ten year basic executive contract.
That contract must contain the following agreements.
No executive including the CEO may be paid more than six times the average salary of the worker on the line.
That’s right you peg the executive salaries to those of the people who make the cars their income depends on.
Next you provide substantial bonuses to the engineers that design producible cars that are more fuel efficient.
Then you get out of the way and let them produce cars.
I suppose some of you are saying that a lot of management will quit under these terms.
Good! These are the people who brought the industry to bankruptcy. Let them quit.
Fill those positions with the best people from off the line.
What we need is a dedicated leadership that will be more interested in leading than their perks.
Now management will be in an honest position to negotiate with the union. The Union will know if management asks for a pay cut it will in essence be cutting its own pay as well.
These are drastic times. If we want to compete with foreign cars we need some drastic changes.
Congress can force those changes.
But it probably won’t.

News from Pigeon Falls

The little town in my basement where the trains still run, dragons fly, and life is back to normal
Homeland security arrived in force yesterday afternoon. They came in three helicopters and set up a base camp just outside the Bob Maki farm. Prior to landing they flew over the area and took pictures of what looks like a large shadow on the land. The shadow extends upward about thirty feet.
They brought with them huge searchlights that they then set up and aimed at the shadow . It simply absorbed the light. It had no impact, whatsoever. In fact none of the highly sophisticated equipment they brought had any impact on the shadow. Finally one of the men volunteered to go into the shadow . They tied a rope around his waist so they could pull him out and he took a walkie talkie with him, a very powerful walkie talkie. The idea was that if he didn’t contact them within a minute of going in they would pull him back. No contact came so they went to pull him back but the rope came with no person. Something had severed the rope.
The result of all this was panic. It occurred to these “ experts” that if the shadow continued to grow it might destroy all life on the planet. Something had to be done. It was suggested that the government might drop an Atomic Bomb and burn away the shadow not to mention Pigeon Falls.
Meanwhile Tammy and Tommy UK had failed in their attempt to find Herman. Tammy suggested they go and talk to Mabel , Herman’s mother. She might remember something from his past that could help them.
Will Herman’s mother help? Will they drop an Atomic bomb on poor little Pigeon Falls? Will it do any good? Where is Herman? What did happen to the scientist? And of course is Tommy UK really the undertaker’s kid?

Wrap Up

I felt a bit better today. We did get over a foot of snow with wind. Betty's Bible study was canceled.In the morning I worked on my link list. Then Betty and I worked on the layout. Then back to the link list. Then I visited eighteen blogs and left comments. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA
GBYA

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