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The Big Three or the UAW: Choose

For the Big Three to survive the UAW must die. Otherwise they both die. Expensively.

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Indeed. Bankruptcy would be the best bet, which would kill off some structured difficulties for the Big Three.

GM has 7000 dealerships and there are state laws prohibiting the closure of smaller, unprofitable ones. Toyota has no such restrictions. GM has too many lines of cars, feeding said dealerships.

UAW greed is notorious and they're bloody minded. My brother told me there is a concept such as the jobs pool. If a union member doesn't want to move to another place where there is a job, he's paid 95% of his salary to do...nothing. How can a company compete with that?

Also I've seen documentaries, my favored television, on the Hyundai plant in the south. The workers can stop the line at any time and are a part of the process. They have fresh, open, smiling faces. UAW and indeed all union members have resentful, thuggish faces, screaming entitlement. Guess who makes the better cars and at a lower price?

There is no doubt that there was a reason for a union--Henry Ford was a bastard. But for years the Big Three found it just easier to negotiate with them and build in the cost into the car, absent competition. When the Carter-inspired energy crisis hit, the Japanese, who didn't have the capital for infrastructure but had human capital to innovate, showed Americans who could build a better car.

From that time on it was only a matter of time until the death of the Big Three.

But made in Japan is no longer a sign of quality. I just bought a top-of-the-line Acura, made in Japan and I do not think it's made as well as its little brothers made in America. By I believe non-union workers.

There is a time and a place for unions--under Ford, mining--but notice how labor unions almost invariably become thuggish and totalitarian, run along mob lines.

lets stop giveing out government money to all those west texas wealthy ranchers and farmers that have been living off big government socalize money, most of this wealthy west texas ranchers and farmers receive millions of dollars of socialize government welfare money, lets stop giveing money to this weathy people first

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