Why Does GM Give The UAW Workers $5000 Each In Bonuses When Taxpayer Loans Are Outstanding?

Instapundit links to Mickey Kaus who cogently wonders why GM is giving UAW Union workers at General Motors $5,000 bonuses instead of using the profits to pay back the taxpayer bailouts.

Simple, the UAW is an Obama core constituency of course.

The average American taxpayer, not so much.....