Mitch Albom: Hey, you senators: Thanks for nothing

[Faygo Kid]

A few parting words for the senators who squashed the auto rescue

By MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Do you want to watch us drown? Is that it? Do want to see the last gurgle of economic air spit from our lips? If so, senators, know this: You’ll go down with us. America isn’t America without an auto industry. You can argue whether $14 billion would have saved it, but you surely tried to kill it.

We have grease on our hands.

You have blood.

Kill the car, kill the country. History will show that when America was on its knees, a handful of lawmakers tried to cut off its feet. And blame the workers. How suddenly did the workers — a small percentage of a car’s cost — become justification for crushing an industry? . . .

. . . Kill the car, kill the country. Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Mitch McConnell, your names will not be forgotten. It’s amazing how you pretend to speak for America when you are only watching out for your political party, which would love to cripple unions, and your states, which house foreign auto plants.. . .

Edited to add link: http://www.freep.com/article/20081213/COL01/81213055
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Mitch is really pissed. He's not usually this direct. Great to know people everywhere are speaking out. I don't think these clowns better show their twisted faces in Michigan. Ever.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The North and Coasts have subsidized the South and plains states for so long....

they don't want to reciprocate.

Shelby's Alabama gets back $1.62 for every tax dollar sent to DC.

Michigan gets 97 cents from every dollar sent to DC.

[SharonRB]

2. Au contraire

I have to disagree -- Mitch is always direct. He's the best columnist we've got around here.

[navarth]

3. delete

[bermudat]

4. Well written, concise and to the point.

[natrat]

5. and thank all the traitor dems and thugs who gave our treasury to the banks with no strings

ultimately this 8 trillion to the banks may dwarf any other issue

[sarcasmo]

6. Mitch gets the situation, Corker and McConnell and the rest of the idiots are only

trying to crush the union and don't care how many jobs and lives they will ruin.