{"id":439,"date":"2008-12-02T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-12-04T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T01:24:04","slug":"future-uncertain-for-the-children-of-auto-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/12\/02\/future-uncertain-for-the-children-of-auto-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Future uncertain for the children of auto workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the saddest story I read today.  Apparently CNN thought it necessary to reprint a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/12\/02\/students.auto.industry\/\">Uwire sob story about the plight of auto industry children<\/a>.  They may have to find a way to actually pay for school.  I couldn&#8217;t stop the tears.  To think that retired auto workers may have to forgo lifetime salaries and free health care for themselves and their children&#8230; Well, I don&#8217;t know if I have the strength to hear any more of this tragic burden.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, yes I do.  Welcome to the world the rest of us live in.  The world without pensions, free health care and other guaranteed retirement benefits thanks to a Union.  Tell your sob story to my 62 year old mother who doesn&#8217;t plan to quit working any time soon.  Your poor tear jerking article claims a school girls parents &#8220;logged more than 30 years for the auto giant&#8221;, GM.   This school girl is 29 years old.  Now that just makes me damned mad.  My mothers been working for over 39 years non-stop often on night shifts for years at a time.  Where&#8217;s her free health care?  Where&#8217;s her lifetime salary at retirement?  How come I didn&#8217;t get to go to college for free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s the saddest story I read today. Apparently CNN thought it necessary to reprint a Uwire sob story about the plight of auto industry children. They may have to find a way to actually pay for school. I couldn&#8217;t stop the tears. To think that retired auto workers may have to forgo lifetime salaries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2008\/12\/02\/future-uncertain-for-the-children-of-auto-workers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future uncertain for the children of auto workers?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}