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I worked for one of the big three auto companies for 30 years. I retired early. What a lot of people don't realize is most of us who were able to retire early, and or made the big bucks every year, worked 60 or more hours a week, and sometimes worked every single day in the year, so we could do that. As in we actually working 365 days a year.

Most of the people (not all)through the years who have claimed I made more money then they did, and was therefor over paid, would die before they would do what I did to make that money, actually some had the chance and turned it down. Now after 30 years of doing what I was told I had to do to earn my retirement, it looks like it will be taken from me. Some of you might feel we don't deserve our retirement anyway. That would be like you getting a very good deal for a house, paying for the house for 30 years, having it completely paid for, then someone saying, well you had it too well for those 30 years, we are taking your house away. I didn't make the decisions that were made to make big cars. Matter a fact GM didn't really even make that decision, our customers did. On the one hand they would say, we want smaller cars, then they would buy the big ones.

Another rant I have is that although many of you are very hard workers, the people who seemed to complain about factory workers the most spend much of their days in offices talking about golf, their stocks, and how lazy the people are that work making what ever there company sells. Then they call it networking, and good for the company. I have seen this first hand. If you went to four or more years of college, and forgot to make sure before hand if they pay enough to pay off your loans, or if there were actually jobs in your field, that is something you could have avoided. Don't blame the autoworker who made most of our decisions thirty years ago, and so are kind of locked in to them.

Also two last things, Japanese and German autoworkers make as much or more then I did, when you take in to account the differences in how health care and other social issues are addressed. Other countries though did not fair as well. Finally, the jobsbank were some people got paid for doing nothing, most people actually would rather work, and the union never meant it to actually turn out that way. The plan was that GM would use that vast deep well of knowledge they had available, to figure out a way to smooth out the bumps, instead they figured out it was better to screw around with tax breaks and such.