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11-18-2012, 12:12 PM
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This is from a balloon-juice post about the auto industry in 2008, but it applies here, too, other than I don't think Mitt has weighed in on the fate of Twinkies, probably because he doesn't eat junk food:
THE TRAGEDY OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY:A Play in Three Acts Dramatis Personae BIG THREE, a manufacturer of automobiles UAW, Big Three’s employee MITT ROMNEY, an idiot ACT ONE BIG THREE: I have plans to build automobiles, but I need labor to do so! UAW: I will labor for you if you will pay me $40 per hour. BIG THREE: I will not pay you $40 per hour. UAW: But I need to save for my inevitible retirement, and any health concerns that may arise. BIG THREE: I will pay you $30 per hour, plus a generous pension of guaranteed payments and health care upon your retirement. UAW: Then I agree to work for you! ACT TWO UAW: I am building cars for you, as I have promised to do! BIG THREE: I am designing terrible cars that few people want to buy! Also, rather than save for UAW’s inevitible retirement when I will have to pay him the generous pension of guaranteed payments and health care that I promised, I am spending that money under the dubious assumption that my future revenues will be sufficient to meet those obligations. ACT THREE UAW: I have fulfilled my end of the deal by building the automobiles that you have asked me to build. BIG THREE: Oh no! I am undone! My automobiles are no longer competitive due to my years of poor planning and poor judgment! MITT ROMNEY: This is all UAW’s fault!
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