In tonight's News Hour, Gwen Ifil interviewed Ray Young, the GM CFO. Toward the end of the interview, Mr. Young cited an inpressive list of groups which have sacrificed to let the new GM emerge: employees, dealers, stockholders, bondholders, perhaps more. Missing from the list was GM management. What have Mr. Young and other executives who remain sacrificed?

Just how secure is our monthly pensions? Can we expect to see any major reductions??

My family lived in Flint MI in the early 80s; we were not there because of the auto industry. However, we were indirectly effected by it.

Flint was in bad shape then and it is in worse shape now. Generations in Flint have been auto industry employees...it's what the locals did...why do anything else? The lifestyle became rote.

Michael Moore's documentary Roger and Me was/is such a mirror image of what we lived, breathed and saw while we were there. It was the equivalent to a parent/child relationship. The company patted the child (UAW) on the head and said "good job!" While at the same time, not creating good products. Yet, the child remained loyal -- because that's what a good kid did. What happens to a kid when a parent screws up? The kid lands in foster care, an orphanage, or on the street.

If it weren't so sad, it would be laughable. The Corporate Suits and UAW representatives sold the company and the UAW members down the Flint River.

Flint, MI is a mere ghost town now compared to what we experienced 20+ years ago. Yet, as I stated before it was in bad shape then. I can't imagine having stayed and putting all of our eggs in one basket. My family would be just as devastated as those that remain.

Chief will our optional and life insurance for retirees still be in effect during bankruptcy?

How come everytime we open the agreement, its the retirees who have to give more. It must be easier to take away our benefits, when the Intrnational Reps. get two pensions and paid health care

If at all possible could a dental plan be established for all retired uaw or any other auto worked to join possibly to be deducted for our retirement monthly, if enough people join it may be at a reasonible cost.

All this talk about health care has me boiling mad. I'm just going to come straight out and say it... one of the main reasons we have problems of people without adequate health insurance is because of all business's wanting to hold cost down and not pay out health insurance by only hiring part-time workers. This very much so includes local public schools. Ask around and see how many part-time workers are there from kitchen staff to janitors. Smaller businesses like grocery stores,gas stations---I don't know; pick a job.
How many of us have a relative or child, or friend who can't have health care for all the above reasons. People, this is not workers fault. Everybody is entitled to healthcare. It is not just for the priveledge or those who were fortunate to have good benefits from their place of employment.
Business's need to stop all this welfare stuff and put it where it always shoud of been anyways...OUR GOVERNMENT. We need a national health care at whatever the cost...just raise the taxes up fairly for everybody on all goods and services and for God's sake lets start taking care of our people.