JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum so who really controls the world??

Jim
I just do not understand your insistence the Unions are the answer to our problem. I don't know about the UK but the Unions have just about destroyed our economy.
I agree the Unions were a great force in improving working conditions and getting a fair wage but they got Greedy. Very Greedy. I was a Union worker. And we made a lot of money. A lot. We also spent a lot of time in the local Pub during working hours. But we were protected. We were in the Union.

American companies cannot compete in the global market if they use the American work force. They go bankrupt. That's why the Unions are becoming smaller and smaller. Their jobs are gone.

When Asia started manufacturing products to sell to the American market it took about twenty years for American companies to start to fail. They could not compete. It had nothing to do with Greedy corporate profiteers. The American worker priced themselves out of a job. On top of that they made inferior products. I remember when you were lucky to get a car paid off before it either fell apart or rusted out from under you. Along came the Honda Civic. It ran for twice as long and didn't rust out. At first people laughed at it but it didn't take long for the consumer to start realizing they were getting a better product for a lot less money.
You can blame that on the corporations all you want but the fact is the American worker who won't work for less than the $22.00 an hour the average factory worker makes has been replaced by a Chinese worker who is happy to make $2.75 per hour.

Everyone can't work for the Government. It takes Private sector profits and Taxes to support the Public job sector. Take a look at Greece. That's what happens when everyone works for the government. No one is left to pay taxes.

That doesn't mean the conditions in China are great. They probably are not. But I have seen videos of their work force and working environment and it doesn't look so bad. People in America are spoiled. Our Kids are spoiled. Scott made some points in his post that are right on. And these Kids better wake up and smell the coffee because when my Generation is gone and they don't have us to fall back on they are gonna be in big trouble.