OK so now the union retirement contracts are Bloated. Says who? I doubt you'll find many union retirees who would agree with you. But again, you "feel" like they are bloated because their competition doesn't have these "bloated costs"?
Really? I think maybe you should take a history lesson. ALL nations have tariffs. This includes the USA which has had tariffs since it's founding.
Let's leave the union out for a second and make a analogy. Let's say you own a hardware store and you have 5 employees that you pay quite well with good benefits. You're making a profit and living a higher standard of living than those employees, not outrageously better but better, after all you are the own and risk taker.
Unfortunately you've been fooled by the Reagan Legacy Project. We started seeing these declines and problems BECAUSE of what Reagan started... Actually some of it started with Nixon... HMOs anyone.
Yeah, your anecdotal evidence and generalization must be the problem. I've never heard of a nonunion employee being lazy or taking advantage of an hourly wage... :roll:
what a ****ty example
Well here we have one con saying the product is fine and not the issue. The issue being labor costs. I disagree, the Big 3 made many product mistakes. Their problems are BOTH lack of product and resource vision as well as labor costs.
Yeah, because we have cheap labor (they don't open plants in Detroit now do they? No.) And part of that is that they don't have to cover healthcare costs here.
That's absurd. The people of foreign countries pay taxes to their government which then subsidizes the healthcare cost of that nations corporations in our country. Why? Because we are the worlds largest consumer market.
More nonsensical neocon corporatist propaganda. Need an organ transplant? Waiting list... If national healthcare is so horrible then why do most of the industrialized and progressive nations have it and have had it for decades?
No I understood your point perfectly well which is why you don't like the answer you don't like I responded with.
Why do you think that is?
Why not? Because they increase the cost of housing and then other goods and services as well?? :2wave:
Yes of course, in your completely unbiased opinion.
Again you must be right because you are unbiased...
Can you blame them? You're looked upon as a scab. Scabs harm the union effort therefore union workers aren't going to be appreciative of your nonunion status which undermines the employee benefits gained by union negotiations.
Isn't Toyota wonderful... not that this has anything to do with the topic.
Yes we already know that you lack the ability to understand socioeconomic/community ties or empathize. You've already admitted that and we discussed it.
It would require an actual response first.
Or more appropriately known as fair competition... If you knew what socialism was you might not make silly comments.
This is more con rhetoric. No one said that. Fair competition allows for ideas and superior products and services to make or break a company instead of an artificial advantage for some.
Funny but it gets off track every time we have conservative control. Leze Faire economics do not and have not EVER worked... unless you'd like to be the first to show us a country where it's currently working. :waiting:
I know that you feel ashamed that you can't make a coherent argument against the analogy but you'll really turn out to be a better person if you can admit when your positions are wrong.
No. Their government gives them money to cover the cost. It's called subsidizing.
I did answer which is what you responded to. :roll:
Really? What union(s) are you thinking of in NY?
:rofl yeah, better to have stupid people so they can be easily controlled and believe whatever nonsense they are told.. like, your wages are just fine, you don't need a better standard of living.
I'm not the one saying things like ford workers bicker while toyota workers are all euphoric...
Ignorance really is blissful eh?
