I was going to go to bed....when

My trusty RSS feed for the NYTimes alerted me of an interesting story, which can be found here.

It's about the brand new GM deal - where GM gets to save a billion dollars a year and GM's workers and retiree's get to pay for more of their health benefits - So 750,000 are now worse off.

I know the argument - so spare me - "Well....if GM continues to lose money....blah blah blah....750,000 people would be out of a job" - Well, first of all - NO - b/c Toyota would probably buy GM if it went bankrupt - and the only people to lose their jobs would be the trash at the top - Good Riddance. But also - This isn't a zero-sum game - IT isn't either workers barely make enough to feed their family and they 'pray' that none of their kids get sick OR they are unemployed. We can certainly do better as a society - they're are other options. Holy shit - lets shuffle some resources around - this country has more wealth in the top 10% of its income distribution than it know what to do with. And I can't imagine that some greedy bastard is going to be like "I won't pay an extra 5% of income tax this year on my $1,000,000 per annum salary, in order to prevent people from getting sick or starving or living in squalor" --- actually I think I'm right about this one - that greedy bastard would probably say some combination of "Market Economy", "Personal Responsibility" & "Self-Determination"........oh yeah, I almost forgot "Class War"

People are seriously fucking diluted!!!!