Bailout

[migtig]

This is actually from an ad that's showing up on somd.

Brown Bailout

Basically all these bailouts are pushing other businesses out of business.

I really think that the bailouts need to stop and free market needs to be allowed to work. Businesses fail. New ones are created. Not our tax paying money going to support businesses that we are supporting with our purchases. JMO

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by migtig

This is actually from an ad that's showing up on somd.

Brown Bailout

Union Driven to get more money for wages ....

UPS Employees Say They Were Forced To Lobby Against FedEx
The Washington Post - August 7, 2009

"In an increasingly bitter Washington battle between the nation's two largest shipping companies, some unionized UPS workers say they are being forced to write letters to their lawmakers in support of more stringent labor rules for arch rival FedEx."

- Read The Story

FedEx, UPS face off over labor-law fix
The Washington Times - August 4, 2009

Today's Washington Times exposes more about UPS's campaign for a "brown bailout from Congress, which would harm competition from FedEx Express, raise prices and reduce access to markets.

- Read The Story

EDITORIAL: FedEx is Getting Jobbed by UPS Political Maneuver in Congress
Anchorage Daily News- September 3, 2009
BY JOSEPH HENRI

"The change would force FedEx Express - considered one of America's best-run companies - to radically reorganize its overnight delivery system. The reorganization would negatively impact Anchorage's already troubled economy. Which raises the question: Why are some in Congress trying to fix something that's not broken?"

Read The Story

[mAlice]

I have decided that anyone who takes a bail out or attempts to get a bail out, will not get my business. Ever. I'm through with them.

UPS is just another one to add to the list. If I need to make a purchase that requires shipping, and the company uses UPS, I'll tell them I buy the product from someone else.