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Do TheyWonder Why Peo- ple Hate Them? (Posted Aug. 26) Fellow is disabled with multiple
sclerosis. Has a handicapped placard. It allows him to park virtually any- where in the UK, even in no-parking zones. He goes to the grocery store, parks out front since the handicapped spots in a nearby lot are 100 yards away at the other end of the lot, shops, comes out and there is a ticket on his car. Fast-forward to his conversation with the local parking folks, as report- ed in the Batley&Birstall News: “A council spokeswoman said the
Birstall car park predated the Tesco Express store, hence the disabled bays were located at the opposite end. She added: ‘All vehicles in this car park must park in clearly marked bays and this motorist did not do so.’“ And rules are rules. MS suffers
must follow them, just as does the local footballer. Was this the same woman who said, after being arrested for throwing a live cat in a covered trash can: “I can’t see what all the fuss is about; it’s only a cat?” Here was a perfect opportunity,
missed as usual by parking bureau- crats in the UK, to make a positive headline. First, void the ticket. Second, send someone out with some paint and move the handicapped spots near the front of the store. Third, call the local newspaper and get some good PR.
Buy a Foreign Car, Park Somewhere Else (Posted Aug. 26) I have been thinking about the
issue raised of signs at auto-assembly plants around the country banning non- GM, Ford or Chrysler products. I note that Ford once owned Jaguar, Chrysler is owned by Fiat, and GMis manufac- turing cars in Brazil,Mexico and, dare I say it, China. Half the parts in these cars are made overseas by non-union workers. But none of this seems to car- rymuch weight with theUAW. Let’s see if I can parse this situation
a bit. GM and Chrysler were in such bad shape, financially, that had theU.S. government not bailed them out, they both would have been bankrupt, closed, and the unionmembers would have lost
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lions in unfunded retirement andmedical benefits to millions of retired workers. I’m not begrudging these benefits; how- ever, the companies that are giving them must be able to pay for them. That is a
problem. I understand that management agreed to the benefits, and probably shouldn’t have, but no matter what the reason, there simply isn’t enoughmoney. There also is the issue ofwork rules.
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