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How the Treasury drove cutoff of non-union Delphi workers’ pensions?

jt 2012/08/07 16:38:40
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Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.

The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.

The internal government emails contradict sworn testimony, in federal court and before Congress, given by several Obama administration figures. They also indicate that the administration misled lawmakers and the courts about the sequence of events surrounding the termination of those non-union pensions, and that administration figures violated federal law.


http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/emails-geithner-treasury-dr...

A fwd article: -jt

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  • Charles R. Anderson 2012/08/14 05:22:34
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Charles R. Anderson
    The Obama administration is totally lawless in the best tradition of socialist governments.
  • Captain-Morgan 2012/08/09 23:17:20
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Captain-Morgan
    WHAT'S NEW...
  • Claybern 2012/08/09 00:10:47
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Claybern
    Yes it is.
  • rknothead 2012/08/08 12:12:40
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    rknothead
    +1
    Everyone should hear about this. Time to get unions out.
  • 2sly 2012/08/08 09:28:08
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    2sly
    +1
    Obama promised change and this is some of the change the people get. Typical Chicago Politics put in place by his Mafia Union Bosses.
  • Ron in Oregon 2012/08/07 19:27:53
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Ron in Oregon
    +1
    That is why all the stockholders of GM got the short straw.
    GM still owes millions to us, will we ever see it, I doubt it.
    The auto union has no right to own GM stock, they are supposed to be non-profit.
  • ciaomarsha 2012/08/07 19:23:58
    Undecided
    ciaomarsha
    What do you really know!!!?
  • goatman112003 2012/08/07 19:12:35
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    goatman112003
    +3
    I swear this administration operates like a Star Wars movie with Jarrett playing the emperor and Obama as Vader and the rest as various functionaries, The TEA party is the rebels and it goes on. When will this corruption come to an end.
  • Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/08/07 17:47:36
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆
    +2
    I don't doubt it. This is typical of "Progressive" government.
  • Demonic Rat Hunter 2012/08/07 17:44:48
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Demonic Rat Hunter
    +2
    The obama only cares about illegals, unions, muslims and Liberal minorities after that everyone else is crap. Chrysler buyout screwed over stockholders to let the unions keep their goodies.
    Just more Thugonomics from the tax evader Geithner and obama.
  • Michelle 2012/08/07 17:04:46
    Undecided
    Michelle
    +1
    JT why are you making this a conservative when you created a voice of openness?
  • Michelle Michelle 2012/08/07 17:05:58
    Michelle
    +1
    conservitive
  • Michelle Michelle 2012/08/07 17:58:31
    Michelle
    This a clerical mistake lead by those following corparate direction instead on the human level. Happens now in goverenment too now.
  • Charles... Michelle 2012/08/14 05:26:20
    Charles R. Anderson
    You have me totally puzzled about what you are saying or trying to say.
  • ChiTownGirl 2012/08/07 16:56:54
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    ChiTownGirl
    +2
    We all know why Obama & Friends did this...Delphi was punished for not being in a labor union. I hope the contradiction between the emails and the sworn testimony lands someone in hot water, but we all know it won't. This Administration has gotten away with so much it's sickening.
  • pantagruella 2012/08/07 16:45:40
    Undecided
    pantagruella
    +2
    Whether we are left or right politically we admire people who work their way through life. Workers look forward to retirement one day. Provision is made in some arrangement between workers, employers and government. When the expected provision fails, it is one of the horrors experienced by people who have played fair with the system. This is touched on in the film Wall Street. Let's hope justice will prevail. athlete  flag
  • doc moto 2012/08/07 16:45:15
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    doc moto
    +3
    Read the last line in the actual article and then figure them out: "“As a result of the Delphi Corporation bankruptcy, for example, Delphi and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation were forced to terminate Delphi’s pension plans, which means there are Delphi retirees who unfortunately will collect less than their full pension benefits,” Feldman testified on July 11, 2012."
    Seems they have and had a plan all along for all of us!
  • Aurora 2012/08/07 16:42:30
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    Aurora
    +4
    The culture of corruption.
  • cmdrbnd007 2012/08/07 16:41:42
    Wtf? Is it for real?
    cmdrbnd007
    +4
    It just shows you just how despicable this administration truly is. It is Chicago gangland politics at it's worst.

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