GM hoses non-union retirees...

As if we needed another reason to not buy GM products...

Via NLPC:

The president of the GM Retirees Association, Jim Shepherd, sent a scathing letter last week to GM CEO, Dan Akerson. The letter was in response to General Motors' decision to modify pension plans for non-union retirees. Mr. Shepherd stated that the non-union retirees wanted to express their "absolute consternation and disgust" and described the move by GM as not being only unfair but, "it is sheer irresponsibility and greed."

So, on behalf of its many members, I now welcome the GM non-union retirees to the "Hosed by Government Motors Club." As I mentioned when I welcomed Canadian taxpayers to the club, members of the club include former GM

shareholders and bondholders, widows and other accident and asbestos litigants, owners of "Old" GM vehicles who did not have their vehicles' problems covered by "New" GM, Indian tribes and others who have had their lands polluted by Old GM, Delphi non-union retirees, non-union workers at shuttered GM dealerships and the American taxpayers. The club does not include politically-favored US unionized labor or legal firms enriched by the GM bankruptcy process which were awarded DOE contracts worth million of dollars in addition to the millions they already made in the GM bankruptcy.

You tax dollars are hard at work hosing anyone who isn't union.