Yes, although McConnell won on the back of a High-Risk Loan we are always hearing Republicans rail against, it seems that his own luck didn't make him anymore generous to anyone but the failed bankers.
Case in point? His statement today on the Auto Bailout:
‘I want to support a bill that revives this industry. But I will not support a bill that revives the patient with taxpayer dollars yet doesn’t secure a commitment that the patient will change its ways so future help isn’t needed’
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He rambles on as we have come to expect from a failed leader totally devoid of any kind of real vision:
"To do so would be a betrayal of the millions of hardworking taxpayers who are not at fault for the troubles in the auto industry. And it would be unfair to the millions of Americans who depend on these companies.
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What I want to know is where was all this concern when McConnell voted for HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars in bailouts to the bankers, who in turn came along and rescued the failed campaign of a failed Senator with a high-risk loan?? Is this what we bailed out bankers for? And notice how McConnell is mum on how the aforementioned bankers have pocketed the money instead of distributing it to revive the failed economy McConnell was lock in step with the failed Bush Administration in crashing.
So, what is it that really bothers the failed, re-elected Senator from Kentucky?? Lets look:
"On the labor side, this bill proposal fails to require any serious reform of legacy costs. Indeed, it states explicitly that one of its purposes is to preserve the same retirement and health care benefits that have made these companies so uncompetitive. It’s delusional to expect a company that spends $71 per labor hour to compete with a company in a neighboring state that spends $49 per labor hour.
"A good proposal would force automakers to get control of their benefit costs.
"A good proposal would make wages at struggling companies competitive with other automakers — not tomorrow, but today.
"A good proposal would end the practice of paying workers who don’t work.
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So, to conclude:
In Kentucky, our failed Senator who was re-elected by a bail-out loan from a failed bailed-out industry has decided that the only way to bail-out companies that actually employ Americans with middle-class wages and benefits is to turn back the clock and do away with wages and benefits American workers have fought for and won.
Instead of lamenting the fact that wages in failed third-world countries are far too low, this aforementioned bailed-out Senator from Kentucky is telling us that American workers are too fat, lazy, and spoiled, and should give up their wages, benefits, and pensions that they have earned and regress America to being a third-world country where we can be forced to work for peanuts.
Are you seeing the theme here?? After rewarding the failure of the bankers, and having his own failure rewarded, Mitch McConnell is ready to tell the American worker that they should accept themselves as failures like him, and de-value themselves to third-world status. That pretty much sums up the modern Republican Party from one of its leaders, failure, greed, and animosity to the working American.
And six more long years of failed vision and partisan idiocy in Kentucky.
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