Cato – If the Detroit 3 made cars as good as the rest of the world at competitive prices, the cars would sell themselves. They don’t.
A clue, Cato, under Open Borders, a Global Labor market, there is no manufactured good or service product that cannot be done elsewhere for a better price and “as good a product” with adequate investment and quality control. Until, under that suicidal regime, labor costs “levelize” – meaning 3rd world wages go way up, and US wages and standard of living go waaaaay down.
If we want, we can also import people if we can no longer afford present private sector & government wages (with all our manufacturing and wealth-generating centers lost) for US “services, non-manufacturing sector” citizens, that would make for far cheaper and more affordable cops, Marines, trash collectors, farmers, oil rig workers, teachers, EMTs, scientists, lawyers…Oh, and bankers, doctors, and CEOs…
Nor is the problem really fixable by blaming those “cosseted, overpaid, unproductive” union workers…Since free trade has gutted non-union manufacturing and the 1st phase of service sector jobs (2 more phases of outsourcing affecting up to 28 million white collar jobs are in the early works)…non-union workers have actually lost their jobs faster to “free trade!! Global win-win solutions!” than unions that had more ability to fight..Electronics, chip-making, Right-to-Work States textiles, clothing, furniture, home appliances…lost.
Places like Silicon Valley, where “beneficent employers, motivated creative American employees wanting no stinkin’ union, and “glorious high tech!” all combined to create “the future”. Oooops! The future is jobless IT workers, engineers, game designers, and shutdown factories from Palo Alto all the way down to San Bernadino…
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Tom Blumer – If you oppose all bailouts, then I can’t wait for you to join in boycotting another cent spent on “noble Iraqi, Afghan freedom-lovers”, another buck lost bailing Israel out of any embargos or furnished with war supplies..Not another cent for bailing out wealthy Southern Republicans who have their beachfront properties wiped out every 10 years.
Defense contractor bailouts? Farmer’s taxpayer furnished pork?
My, the lists of bailouts and possible boycotts is nearly endless and far exceeds that Detroit is getting!!!
Bon appetite!
