As if the “audacious” demands that the United Auto Workers were putting upon the Detroit Three automakers during their recent strike weren’t ridiculous enough, we now have their president (Shawn Fain) stating that, if the auto corporations won’t pay for worker’s pensions, then the U.S. government must step in and do so (“UAW President: If corporations won’t pay for pensions, then the taxpayers must,” the Detroit News, Jan. 22, 2024).

Is it so wrong that the auto corporations are asking its employees to manage their own retirement strategy, all the while providing them with regular contributions and tax-deferred savings options to help them do so?

Apparently, Mr. Fain thinks so.

So, the simple and easy fix is to have every taxpayer in the U.S. bail these poor workers out, so that they are “guaranteed” a retirement in their later years, while many of those who would be forced to subsidize such a lifestyle may never be afforded the same?

Come on, Shawn, really?!?

What in the H-E-double-L are you thinking?

MARK ALAN HAGLUND,

Harrisville