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Originally Posted by Robbie
Huh? It's an assembly line isn't it? When I was a teenager I dug post holes all day during highschool in one of my Dad's cattle pastures in the hot sun. THAT was back breaking work. I was friends with quite a few guys and girls who worked the assembly lines in Michigan in the late 1980's and early 1990's when my band used to play all through Michigan (Flynt, Jackson, Detroit, Muskegon) and they all made great money and seemed to be doing real well and were happy. Didn't look like they were doing "back breaking work" for low pay. Not saying that they were overpaid, just saying...
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I built cars for gm in the mid 80's for the tarrytown plant . Buick century and Pontiac 6000, we made a big 11 buck an hour plus benefits which was a decent wage in the day. The work was hard, hot and very suckful. In the two yrs I was there 2 guys died from plant accidents. Things you take for granted like being able to go to the bathroom when you like and had to learn to take aspirin without water because there was none near my place on the line.
How come no one was screaming about what banks, wall street and aig employees make? They gave aig what 85 billion and told them nothing about how to run their business.Maybe it was because the senators against this the same ones that voted for the 700 billion dollar bail out didnt have a interest like they do with those foreign plants in their states.