Bail me out.  I’m suffering.  While you write another check, pour me another glass of wine ple

“If you don’t give us billions, we will all go under.” “The suffering is enormous with this economy and we will disappear without major help.” We heard the colorful and desperate “we’re dying” speeches in front of congressional leaders this week by our big automakers. An asteroid is about ready to strike Chrysler, GM and Ford. The world may come to an end! Help! Help! Help!!!

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Lets look a little closer at the body of the dying patient on the table…more light please nurse. First of all lets look at their average wages. Thanks to CNSNews.com we now know that the average worker at DaimierChrysler makes $75.86 and hour. Ford, on average pays their workers $70.51 an hour and GM averages $73.26 an hour. The bottom line is that even with some of these numbers including retirement costs, pensions etc….it still averages about $133,000 per year per worker. Isn’t that special? In a time of national melt down and the car companies allegedly going down the toilet, the average worker desperately struggles with a lowly 100,000 plus salary? Oh horror of horrors. I can hardly process the suffering and pain. Interestingly, the average worker in the U.S., you know, the forced bail out crowd, makes $28.50 an hour. Isn’t that grand? The $28.50 folks get to bail out the $75.86 folks. For me, the same ‘eyes rolling in the back of my head’ happened when we heard of the AIG executives going to 3-400,000 retreats, padded with every benefit that a visiting King would get. Of course, naturally, we hear that you have to pay big bucks to get ‘the talent.’ They are used to a certain standard of living, on and on. Let me get this straight. We hear endless discussions and statements from Paulson, Bernacke and the heads of major banking, investment, and now major industries about the endless need for bail out funds. As I said would happen months ago when the gravy train of socialism and rescues started, the line would get bigger and bigger as the $28.50 club got robbed again and again. Now we see states lining up for the money and once Obama gets sworn in prepare for countries to line up for billions. Actually, the struggling countries won’t have to do much begging, Obama will just start writing checks and redistributing our soon to be fossilized wealth into the hands of tyrants like Prime Minister Odinga in Kenya and others. A layperson’s view from the birdhouse: Advice to Automakers: You are in a major emergency to keep your doors open. Act like it! Cut your salaries to reflect the national average wage until the crisis is over, $28.50 an hour. Cut your lavish, Union laced benefits in half. Cut one day off each week of your employee’s hours. File Chapter 11 and reorganize. Cut out ALL fat. Focus on creating only cost effective, gas friendly cars. Focus on those that have been selling and market those. No umbrella retirement packages, no lavish retreats. A little advise for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack and AIG Stupid, greedy and naïve loans in business lead to destruction and massive losses. That is NOT our fault. You apparently haven’t suffered enough because you can still spend nearly half a million for lavish retreats, even after you declared you were going down the toilet and were campaigning for billions of rescue money. Look, here is some AID. I will personally get a cash advance on my credit card just to see you all experience REAL consequences. Sadly, if your companies have to go down in flames and die….oh well. Those of us in the real world have that happen as well when we do stupid, greedy business too long. Eventually, there ain’t no grace and Doctors on call left! Finally, for all the struggling companies and states suffering and now morphing that into begging for bail out tax money I say: CUT BACK! CUT SALARIES DRASTICALLY! REORGANIZE YOUR COMPANIES! GET PRIVATE LOANS OR INVESTORS TO BUY YOU TIME IF THOSE DON’T WORK, SHUT DOWN YOUR COMPANIES LAY OFF EMPLOYEES WHERE NEEDED RETOOL WHAT YOU OFFER AND SELL. ANALYISE AND RESPONDE TO THE MOST CRITICAL NEEDS THAT CONSUMERS WANT AND CAN AFFORD NO FANCY RETREATS AND UNBRELLA PAY OUT PACKAGES. WORSE CASE SCENERIO! I WILL SING AT YOUR COMPANIES FUNERAL! Lets only rescue the perishing who have done everything humanly possible to cut costs and address their losses not fund the greedy who think they are entitled to something!!!