Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
"The U.S. government is pouring billions into General Motors in hopes
of reviving the domestic economy, but when the automaker completes its
restructuring plan, many of the company's new jobs will be filled by
workers overseas.

According to an outline the company has been sharing privately with
Washington legislators, the number of cars that GM sells in the United
States and builds in Mexico, China and South Korea will roughly
double. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...050704336.html

How about that. Now the UAW is screwing it's own workers.

How ironic.



SW Tommy, the right-wing "leftover."

This oughta cheer you up.

Young Americans Losing Their Religion
by pastordan
Wed May 06, 2009 at 05:05:52 PM PDT

This is disturbing:

New research shows young Americans are dramatically less likely to
go to church -- or to participate in any form of organized religion --
than their parents and grandparents.

"It's a huge change," says Harvard University professor Robert
Putnam, who conducted the research.

Historically, the percentage of Americans who said they had no
religious affiliation (pollsters refer to this group as the "nones") has
been very small -- hovering between 5 percent and 10 percent. However,
Putnam says the percentage of "nones" has now skyrocketed to between 30
percent and 40 percent among younger Americans.

Oh, wait. That's not the disturbing part. This is:

While these young "nones" may not belong to a church, they are not
necessarily atheists.

"Many of them are people who would otherwise be in church," Putnam
said. "They have the same attitidues and values as people who are in
church, but they grew up in a period in which being religious meant
being politically conservative, especially on social issues."

Putnam says that in the past two decades, many young people began
to view organized religion as a source of "intolerance and rigidity and
doctrinaire political views," and therefore stopped going to church.

There's been some question about the validity of self-reported church
attendance numbers: we know that it tends to be overstated, but nobody's
really sure by how much. So it's possible that this reflects a new
willingness to state the truth, rather than new behavior per se.

But in general, thanks a lot, Religious Right. Not only did you help
f*** up this country by propping up a bunch of venal sociopaths and
helping them win election after election, but you also helped undermine
the very religion you claimed to defend by convincing an entire
generation that it was made up of hateful, narrow bigots. Way to go.
Well done, good and faithful servants.

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