“It’s not my fault.” How many times a week do we hear this one? (Let’s not count the number of times we may utter it ourselves.)
A memorable line from the Blues Brothers movie (one of the all-time classic comedies, in my opinion) occurs when Jake is pleading with his former fiancé in the catacombs under the Palace Ballroom, as she is threatening to shoot him for missing their wedding, and he proclaims that “it wasn’t my fault.”
Kids use this frequently to avoid consequences, we all us it. But let’s face it, it’s become overworked. Some things just happen. However, other things are caused. At those times, there needs to be responsibility from someone.
All this brings me to a news conference I caught part of today. The president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), which I feel has been chiefly instrumental in causing the prices of cars to rise to their present unseemly levels and for the Big 3 to be on the skids and going back to Washington – this time brazenly asking for $34 billion, up from the $25 requested last time, had the audacity to say with a straight face that they had nothing to do with this.
He was saying that the mess the automakers are finding themselves in and the lack of auto sales nationwide have nothing to do with the excessive demands of the UAW - and the concessions made to it. In fact, they have everything to do with it.
I fault the UAW for having a “me first” attitude and the automakers for poor management, lack of vision, and no backbone. Ugly no matter how you look at it.
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