Saturday, December 6, 2008
ya, i think i have it... maybe i'm just being cocky... either way ;)
i feel completely empowered.
i tell you why.
yesterday i pulled my usual "leaving the assignment till the last min" because i struggled over what to write this 4 page paper about.
well, i finally decided to write it about these Wall Street Journal articles discussing the congressional hearings held that gave the 3Big Auto an opportunity to grovel in their failed business attempts and ask for a Bailout.
well, if you don't already know, congress was like "get real guys...." and that makes me a very happy citizen.
my dad, on the other hand sounds just like the president... (in a very low gruff voice full of arrogance) "they better bail them out or do you know that there will be millions of people out of a job!?"
how freaking ignorant. okay, look at this, United Airlines filed bankruptcy... and they were not forced to close their doors, mind you they did have to cut the business down to a manageable number of employees, and the retiree's pensions and benefits were severely cut. BUT THEY DIDN'T CLOSE THE DOORS. and neither will GM, Ford, or Chrysler. United airlines had to lower their prices, and do many other things to cut cost, but they are still alive and flying all over the place. Bankruptcy is an option that these 3Auto makers have, and they won't shut the doors. If it were up to me, and this may sound completely heartless, but i would close their doors until they came up with some cars that people SHOULD be driving.... kinda a little time out for bad behavior. even a smaller airline that is not international didn't close their doors when they filed chapter 11. I'm speaking of frontier. My mother works for frontier, and yes, they are experiencing many unfavorable work conditions due to the poor financial dealings in their company, for instance when gas was $4 a gallon they all got a 10% pay cut. and mind you this had not been returned, even though gas is now lower than i have ever seen it in my lifetime... or at lease since i've been paying attention. so, really when we are talking of companies who are going to be forced to go bankrupt, we aren't speaking of them all being forced to close their doors, well not all the doors anyways, but honestly, do we want ford gm and chrysler pumping out the same awful environmentally irresponsible cars that they have been turning out for ages? i say not, maybe them closing their doors will open doors to savvy carmakers to grab the market with cars that don't distroy the earth, and then all those people with car building experience will be doing something a little less distructive, and with a brand new market.....
that would be nice eh?
so anyways, i feel empowered because i wrote a very good paper, crunched right up to my deadline of 5pm, but i did it :)
and i called my professor on her cell all frantic to make sure that she got the e-mail :) she was laughing at me. lol
i would have laughed at me too.
i just hope it can pull off an a
the other thing that i am so excited about is this playlist that i made with a couple of my fav artists tearing out my heart :) (that. is a good thing :)
i tell you why.
yesterday i pulled my usual "leaving the assignment till the last min" because i struggled over what to write this 4 page paper about.
well, i finally decided to write it about these Wall Street Journal articles discussing the congressional hearings held that gave the 3Big Auto an opportunity to grovel in their failed business attempts and ask for a Bailout.
well, if you don't already know, congress was like "get real guys...." and that makes me a very happy citizen.
my dad, on the other hand sounds just like the president... (in a very low gruff voice full of arrogance) "they better bail them out or do you know that there will be millions of people out of a job!?"
how freaking ignorant. okay, look at this, United Airlines filed bankruptcy... and they were not forced to close their doors, mind you they did have to cut the business down to a manageable number of employees, and the retiree's pensions and benefits were severely cut. BUT THEY DIDN'T CLOSE THE DOORS. and neither will GM, Ford, or Chrysler. United airlines had to lower their prices, and do many other things to cut cost, but they are still alive and flying all over the place. Bankruptcy is an option that these 3Auto makers have, and they won't shut the doors. If it were up to me, and this may sound completely heartless, but i would close their doors until they came up with some cars that people SHOULD be driving.... kinda a little time out for bad behavior. even a smaller airline that is not international didn't close their doors when they filed chapter 11. I'm speaking of frontier. My mother works for frontier, and yes, they are experiencing many unfavorable work conditions due to the poor financial dealings in their company, for instance when gas was $4 a gallon they all got a 10% pay cut. and mind you this had not been returned, even though gas is now lower than i have ever seen it in my lifetime... or at lease since i've been paying attention. so, really when we are talking of companies who are going to be forced to go bankrupt, we aren't speaking of them all being forced to close their doors, well not all the doors anyways, but honestly, do we want ford gm and chrysler pumping out the same awful environmentally irresponsible cars that they have been turning out for ages? i say not, maybe them closing their doors will open doors to savvy carmakers to grab the market with cars that don't distroy the earth, and then all those people with car building experience will be doing something a little less distructive, and with a brand new market.....
that would be nice eh?
so anyways, i feel empowered because i wrote a very good paper, crunched right up to my deadline of 5pm, but i did it :)
and i called my professor on her cell all frantic to make sure that she got the e-mail :) she was laughing at me. lol
i would have laughed at me too.
i just hope it can pull off an a
the other thing that i am so excited about is this playlist that i made with a couple of my fav artists tearing out my heart :) (that. is a good thing :)
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