GM workers make $63 per hour in pay and benefits and went on strike for more.
Now if you folks want to talk about greed and the love of money, this is a great example.
No wonder new auto are out of the reach of most working folks today.
My dad worked for General Motors for 37 years as skilled trades, and retired from them, and made good money.
He never wanted to be a supervisor, and was not one, and did not want to be on maintenance, but on project.
That way he could sit in the bar for practically the whole day, and sometimes other people would punch him out, all the while getting big money.
And the supervisors know where they are at but being a Union job if there was not a project my dad would sit around the shop, so they did not care.
My dad said he made 15 dollars an hour in 1975 and he got overtime, and when he retired he made about 37 dollars an hour which he retired years ago.
I would say my dad was greedy for money for if he could get more he would want it, and he did not care about the poor and needy.
But you have to look at how much money General Motors makes.
Like Tom Hanks said he struggles with money for he made so much of it for a movie, but he said it has to go somewhere whether the film makers or him.
It does not matter how much money you make as long as it is legal, and not against the ways of God, as long as you follow the rule of God to only go by your needs and not your wants, and to help the poor and needy with money above your needs so it does not matter if you make 1 million dollars a year or 50,000 dollars a year your lifestyle is the same.
But we know the world is greedy for money and can never get enough of it especially in America where millions of dollars and billions of dollars is not enough for them.
So if they only paid the workers 30 dollars an hour top money including benefits which put more money in the pocket of the owners would that really make a difference, or would they still charge the same amount of money for their vehicles seeing the world is based on greediness.
Which God said that this generation shall devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
It is like the cereal companies that stopped putting toys for the children in cereal which some say it was a choking hazard for the smaller children all the while they still sell small toys to children in stores, for it does not matter if they put the age restriction on the cereal box, or at the store, it can be a choking hazard either way, and it is supposed to be off limits for the smaller children.
They gave away much more free stuff years ago, and free service, but do not want to do it now, and those toys in the cereal boxes cost money for the company.
It is all about money and whether they pay minimum wage or more than that they still want as much money as they possibly can get for their products and services.
So does it make a difference whether 63 dollars an hour or 37 dollars, for I would think it does not make a difference because they can never have enough money.
The companies are going to try to get all they can get, and the workers are going to get all they can get.
It is the way of the world, greedy company, greedy workers, greedy everybody of the world.
Pump your own gas, scan your own groceries having one person watch 8 check out machines, make you do the work while upping their prices.
Pro 30:11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
Pro 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Pro 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Pro 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Advanced technology caused money and material things to flow like a raging river, and they can reach out to more people to make money, and they heap and heap, and can never have enough, and it brought out the selfishness and arrogance of people more than ever in the history of mankind.
Jesus said since iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold, which is selfishness and arrogance, and they heap and heap because of it.
For the attitude is people basically care about themselves with little regard for anyone else, so you do not care about me, I do not care about you.
And then the attitude is get all you can get and forget everybody else, and they heap and they heap.
And the business man says if I was out on the street would you care about me, so I will bleed you dry of your money, and they heap and they heap.
Everybody is heaping and heaping, and reaping and reaping, whether legal or illegal, does not matter as long as they got the money.
Walmart, billionaires, wealthy, says save money live better, multitude of stores adding up cash for them, but they still have to charge as much money as possible for every single item in the store.
And they buy in big quantities saving them money so their profits are actually big despite a little lower prices, and buy cheap items.
Which Walmart is the biggest business in the world in workforce, and the richest in America, and the Waltons have a combined total of 133 billion dollars, and they do not pay that much, but they are richer than GM owners, so what is their excuse for having so much money.
Big companies charging more money than a mom and pop store that is trying to get by.
I do not think it matters 63 dollars an hour, 37 dollars an hour, minimum wage, they want as much money as possible for their products and services.
Pro 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
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