Eisboch wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:

Interesting prospective on the UAW...

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1366...e?source=yahoo



It is always fun to read the right-wingers' rationalizations as to why
the working man and woman should be paid ****, with no benefits.
Serfdom uber alles, eh?



Why is that?

Seems like when you cannot directly contradict or debate facts you
default to a generalized, "right-winger" attack.

Eisboch


There's no reason to "directly contradict" or "debate" right-wingers
because it would be the same as lying down with pigs in a pool of
pig**** and expecting to come out clean.

I read the article, and the conclusion is the same as all the other
right-wing articles that state that auto workers in this country should
work for peanuts. I especially liked the analogies between what the auto
worker earns and what physicians can earn - that was funny stuff.

I'm sure I've told you about my Norwegian buddies who work the offshore
oil rigs and the supply boats. They make substantially less than their
U.S. counterparts, but they live very well, and seem a lot happier than
American works.

Why?

1. First class national health care plan.
2. First class retirement plan that provides a really decent retirement.
3. No or extremely low cost college tuition.
4. A serious rehab program if they are injured on the job. One of my
buddies lost use of an arm in a horrific accident. The government picked
up all his medical bills, and sent him back to college to learn a new
profession he would be able to handle. It also supported his family
while he was learning a new profession. There are no disposable workers
in his country.

I've been to his house. He lives between Oslo and Lillehammer. Nice
suburban house, very well insulated. Not huge, but comfy, well-built,
and up to date.

Come to think of it, he's probably retired by now.

I'll take the right-wing rants about U.S. factory worker pay seriously
once we have plans in place to make sure those who do that kind of work
are treated like workers in other modern countries.

Oh...and when the ratio in pay between top execs and line workers comes
down from four or five hundred to one (or higher) to maybe 10 to 1.