Count Gettelfinger, Big Union Boss

Count Gettelfinger, the head vampire over at the money-sucking, greedy, fat-cat, Big Labor Union (aka - United Auto Workers) had the audacity to say that "the auto industry around the world is in peril". Not quite Mr. G; the last time I checked, Toyota and Honda were cruising along just fine. Sure, they might have taken a hit from the Democrat-caused world financial "crisis", but your problems stem from the fact that it costs GM, Ford, and Chrysler almost twice as much to employ your workers than it costs Toyota and Honda to employ theirs. Why does it cost twice as much? Greed, Mr. Gettelfinger, greed.
So, what do we do about it? I think it's time to whip out that old, dusty copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and take a lesson in free-market capitalism. It is time to throw off the anchor of Unionized Labor and rise back to the surface.
America has been duped into thinking unionized labor is a good thing. Other than drag good businesses down into the toilet, what have the union bosses accomplished? Let's look at a couple of examples:
Education, controlled by unions, has failed.
The American auto industry, controlled by unions, has failed.
The airline industry, controlled by unions, has failed.
This is not a coincidence. Big Union is driving up the cost of doing business. In the auto industry, it has done so to such an extent that the industry itself is teetering on the edge of collapse. So, they have to come to us for a bailout and I, for one, say NO!
Let them file for bankruptcy, renegotiate their union contracts, rewrite their business plan, and renew the industry. A bailout is only going to delay the inevitable. It is akin to giving a patient with appendicitis a bottle of hydrocodone. Sure, he's not going to feel the pain, but he's going to be dead soon. You have to cure the ailment; you have to excise the diseased organ; you have to remove the root cause of the problem. In this case, it's the greedy union.
In order to function, the auto industry needs workers, they need management, they need suppliers, and they need customers. What they don't need is an unnecessary liaison getting in the way.
We live in the age of the open door policy. Most employers understand the need to treat their workers right. If not, there are laws on the books to support employees and protect them from unscrupulous employers. Union bosses only get in the way. They are only there to suck money off the workers under the guise of helping them. Let me ask you this: When the unions put the auto manufactures out of business, who is going to hire all the newly unemployed? Who put them out on the street? Was it the employer trying to make a car or the union boss trying to make a buck?
Let's take out the scalpel of free-market capitalism and cut out the cancer that is Unionized Labor.