[thecavemaster]

When companies sign union contracts through out the years knowing that they could lead them into bankruptcy, or agreeing to pay huge benifit packages even while they are losing money is bad management period. These numbers are not assumptions they know the contract requirements, however I realize they do have to assume/predict what will be the hot ticket down the road.

Concerning Barry and his socialist agenda, I strongly disagree. Because he's thinks the libs may lose their majority this year, he is pushing harder toward socialism.

Barack Obama is NOT a socialist, does not believe in the nationalizing of industry and such. The point was made by a prominent presedential historian recently that Barack Obama is pretty much what a moderate Republican would have looked like in the 1970's... remember, Gerald Ford appointed John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. To think on that for a while is to gain some perspective on the tremendous idealogical shifts IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY over the last thirty years.