Are we bailing out the auto industry or bailing out the unions?

No, since it is not a bailout. Fox News has been saying it is,but they have their facts completely wrong. The cost for this bill, which is not a bail-out, is $8-10 Billion http://www.joc.com/trucking/senator-roll... Fox News claims it is $165 Billion http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-fina... The $165 billion figure cited by Fox News is an estimate made in a September 2009 report by Moody's Investor Service of the total underfunding of multi-employer pension funds, not the underfunding of such funds related to former employees of defunct companies.

As the Capital Research Center summarized: http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/... Even Republicans are saying that Fox News is flat-out lying on this one... Steve LaTourette (R-OH) responded to a report on the network's America Live which falsely claimed that recently-announced pension legislation constitutes a "union bailout." As Rep. LaTourette noted , the bill is no such thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAAzcg0i5uw&feature=player_embedded LATOURETTE: Something just happened on Fox News that compelled me to come to the floor.

They've run this diagram and it really is a, I think, blaspheming my good friend Pat Tiberi from Ohio and indicating that there are nine Republicans supporting a bill that will bail out unions. Well, that's nonsense and I don't know who the pin head and weenie is at Fox News that decided to put that story together. But the true facts of this piece of legislation are as follows.

This bill will save the taxpayers by saying to those corporations that have union pension plans, if you find yourselves in a bind, rather than thrusting that upon the taxpayer, it spreads out over five years the ability to bring those pension plans up to speed. That's good government, it's a good bill. It's a good Tiberi bill and I don't know what they're doing at Fox News, but they should stop smoking it and get back to reporting the facts.

Basically the Unions have done the work the COMPANY should have been doing, that is providing employee pensions like they would in the entire of Europe. Bailing the pension plans out will help the public - something Republicans are always against.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.