I’m singing “Sixteen Tons another day older and deeper in debt, I owe my soul to the government and UAW.”

Let the auto companies slide into bankruptcy which would be the logical way to go. With all these enormous loans…

As a retired UAW member(auto worker) I find it rather interesting that everybody that has chimed in with their opinion on the faults of the domestic auto industry, nobody has thought to include the fact that foreign autos now control…

For any economic proposal to have a positive effect on the economy it must be simple, well understood, and be well received by the general public. The mood of the country is important for the consumer is the one that…

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) was flown in a U.S. government airplane from his mother’s wake in Ohio to Washington D.C. so that he could vote on the stimulus bill. He was then returned to Ohio in the same manner to…

No offense intended to the Generation that lived the great depression and fought WWII. My parents fall into that category. Having been born in the late 50’s I cannot imagine what the depression age went through. I can remember my…

In a letter Jan 13 Marcie DeFiese claims the UAW laid-off workers are bankrupting the State Of Missouri. She needs to read her own letter. The UAW workers do not collect any more state unemployment benefits than any other laid-off…

The Post Dispatch’s Saturday editorial discussed Ford’s new self parking feature and then to proceeded ask. Whatever happened to reliable, fuel-friendly vehicles, small enough for people to park without radar guidance? As a recent buyer of a Ford Focus who…

There seems no poetic justice. The heads of the big three automakers proved this during their drive to Washington to seek Government funds for their failing companies. It would seem that the only way these folks would have seen the…

The article “Panel wants to increase federal tax on gasoline” upset me so much, I can’t even see straight. (And it’s not the GPS privacy thing) 1. “Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline…..”
2. “According to a draft of…

Darrin Gilley’s myopic miasma was confirmed in “What has crippled America’s auto industry,” (December 24) and punctuated by the photograph of a lug nut tightener, sitting on his butt posing with a “Save our jobs” sign, below the column title.…