Is the fact that US automakers are getting their labor MUCH cheaper (than when their vehicle parts manufacturing and vehicle assembly was done solely in the US) causing them to pass those savings onto the US consumers who buy their vehicles?
In other words, are “US branded” vehicles cheaper now than they were ten years ago?
Or is the higher price today being eaten up by shipping costs (back to the US) of parts and/or completely assembled vehicles and increased profits to the automakers??[/quote]
Thank you, BG, for bringing up this most important point. Too many folks were led to believe that off-shoring our jobs would lead to lower prices…and that there would be no negative consequences related to these moves. The unions knew better, and said so, but their voices were drowned out by powerful messages from the PTB that lulled the sheeple into thinking that unions were bad, and globalization was good.
Of course, corporate profit margins are doing just fine, and executive compensation is on fire, thanks to all their “talent”!
These same powerful voices are trying to convince the sheeple that getting rid of public unions will magically result in significantly lower taxes and a better way of life for Joe Sixpack…and that there will be no negative consequences. Sound familiar? Hopefully, people will start doing some research into the origins of the anti-labor movement before it’s too late. The people who were behind the decimation of private sector unions are the very same folks who are leading the attacks against the public sector unions, and they are NOT “taxpayer advocates.” They are anti-labor capitalists, and Mitt Romney (some of us would argue Obama, as well) is going to help them accelerate the widening of the wealth/income gap, and weaken the voice of labor.
