Comments on: I don’t feel like paying for the UAW’s premium golf course.

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:35:41 +0000

I’ve posted here before about how I believe the Big 3 make decent cars. My family has owned only “American” cars for longer than I can remember. Whenever my Dad buys a new truck, its a Ford, usually the Ranger. The family car has either been a Chrysler or a Ford. I learned those ways, and even though I’m not a big fan of unions, my first car was also a Ford. We’ve never had problems with any of the cars we own. I put ‘American’ in quotes above because I have no illusions about how much of the car comes from foreign sources. And I have no illusions about how much of a “foreign” car is made in America. I’ve done it because all other things being equal, I prefer to my money to go to Americans. I’ll even cut Americans a bit of slack if things are lean marginally toward the foreign purchase.

But the failure of the UAW to give concessions to keep the Big 3 afloat is the last straw. I will not be buying another American made car unless the UAW takes at least as big a hit as Rep. Corker wants the bond holders to take. Instead I will buy a Honda or Toyota assembled here in America.

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:27:53 +0000

is that it is in a cold place not noted for showgirls or celebrities. It is also noteworthy that it is openly in the name of UAW. Usually, such assets are nested in the benefits trust or in some shadow company “owned” by made men. Trust administration companies are a favorite.

I guess it kinda makes sense because so much of the UAW’s membership and power was/is in MI, but most unions prefer Palm Springs. Vegas is a favorite as well, but Nevada is still a right to work state and the casinos were once notoriously unfriendly to unions that weren’t invited into the “family,” so they don’t own so much there. These days with a family friendly Vegas, the casinos have joined forces with the unions to make sure they can control Clark Cty. and somewhat control the whole state. NV won’t stay either right to work or Red/Purple much longer.

By: beaming

beaming — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:11:14 +0000

I wonder how long it would be before they yelled HELP. They can’t even run a golf course ?

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:34:09 +0000

given that’s its on the tundra and therefore unusable six months of the year.

Seriously, what the heck is a union doing owning something like this?

By: Mike Gray

Mike Gray — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:28:30 +0000

They could never afford their own salaries. You can’t very well expect people to make concessions to themselves, can you?

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:17:38 +0000

The UAW only cares about the people, man! They aren’t about waste and graft. They CARE… they REALLY DO!

By: Joliphant

Joliphant — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:45:38 +0000

On the face of it would be a bad investment. That is if you considered their business model to be making and selling automobiles. Seeing as it may have shifted to begging money from the government, well it might not be so bad short term.

By: mikefisk

mikefisk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:44:29 +0000

…Onaway?

Even when wasting money on frivolities like a golf course, the UAW can’t seem to do them right, heh. People who live in the middle of nowhere go to Onaway in order to “get away from it all”…

By: Crowe

Crowe — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:42:57 +0000

The UAW didn’t pile up that massive mound of assets and build that millionaire’s getaway by making bad investments!

By: chemjeff

chemjeff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:37:12 +0000

Heck, GM’s market cap is right about $2 billion right now. UAW could purchase a majority stake in the company and turn it into the worker’s paradise that they always wanted.

By: chemjeff

chemjeff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:36:07 +0000

Look, GM’s executive make 100 million billion zillion dollars a year AND they exploit the poor downtrodden proletariat with their evil capitalistic ways. What’s a piddling amount of money like $5 million? Now let’s talk about something else. Like global warming. Yeah, global warming is bad. Oh and the imperialist war in Iraq. Also bad.