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Harry[_2_]

On 12/27/09 2:29 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:20:33 -0500,
wrote:

The high school dropout who was making $60,000 on the line putting the
left front wheel on a Chevy is going to be in trouble, no matter what
we do.
Getting him a GED still won't get him UAW money.
That is the 60 year old "union bubble" that globalism popped.

Stop blaming the union for management's ill deeds. One immediate problem
with it is that it'll never happen. You're going to force people into the
school? Sure.

It's always so nice when those with some means want to crap on those
with no means. It's so...Republican.

A republican would want to keep paying $60,000 a year for a menial job
and charge $30,000 for the crappy car they build.(making a tidy profit
along the way).
Unfortunately that economic model has been crushed by a global
marketplace where the cost of labor is driven down by what the
customer wants to pay. If those hillbillies in Tennessee can build a
Honda for $20,000 that performs better than a Chevy, people buy it, no
matter what aging ex-football stars say.

If those hillbillies in japan can build that car for $20,000, it's
because they have a national health care system that spreads its cost
over the entire country, and not the manufacturer of that car.

I know many highly skilled construction workers whose straight rate is
$50 an hour. The morons who whine about this say construction workers
aren't worth $50 an hour times the usual 1800-hour work year for a total
of $90,000 a year. Of course, very, very few workers get 1800 hours a
year or even close to it. For full pension and welfare benefits, 1200
hours a year is considered a full work year. That's about $60,000, and
from that must be deducted health care and pension payments. There's a
lot of downtime in construction work.

On the other hand there are many crooks and near crooks on wall street
who make many times that $60,000 a year. Now there is a group that is
grossly overpaid.