It's human nature to want to relieve anxiety. Some people will look at this as an escape. What I'm questioning is: Is there really safety in this? If you undermine the people that you leave behind, eventually they're going to be negotiating for us.

This was a big opportunity for the UAW to act like leaders of the labor movement. The only viable social and economic solution is national health care.

We're just going to have to take them to the mat. There's no reason to take concessions. It doesn't save jobs.

They want to pay the older seniority people to betray the lower seniority people and the workers in general. I'm afraid that if I accept this offer, I'm going to hurt the person I work next to because I'm going to abandon them.

That was alarming because if my pensions depended on Delphi, I'd have no faith in it at all. We would prefer to have our money up front.

I made that sign. Maybe I should send him one.

This isn't a buyout, it's a buy off.

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.