GreedyAmerica

Bailout Nation Mentality: Ford Workers Reject Further Concessions

The US already has the greatest gap between CEO pay and worker pay of any country on earth and the third greatest income inequality of any developed country (ahead of only Hong Hong and Singapore). The income gap has grown so large that a large fraction of full-time US workers are no longer required to even pay federal income tax (because their families would fall into further poverty). Our doctors make about 3 times the salary of German doctors and way more than any doctors anywhere else in the world. Greed is destroying America, but it's not up to the UAW to make the sacrifices that no one else in this country is willing to make. It's the UAW job to get the best "most greedy" deal they can.

Look at it another way. There are about 2 billion desperate people in this world willing to work for pennies a day to survive. With free trade, US workers will eventually be competing with all these desperate people. So in order to compete successfully, our workers need to be as desperate as these 2 billion. So the US will eventually have more and more millions of extremely desperate people willing to do almost anything (legal or illegal, moral or immoral) to survive. The US already has the highest percentage of its population in prison of any country in the world. How many more prisons will be needed 10 years from now? You can't expect American workers to compete with desperate workers around the world ("so-called Free Trade) until American workers are as desperate as them That's a frightening future.