Re: Boy!

I am a union member and support unions but I don't support the extremism that unions have gone to. Years ago they got drunk on the power to blackmail companies and abused it. Unions made plants and mines safer, they got their workers a decent wage, they got decent work hours and they helped secure the companies future and theirs with a pension. Now they are greedy, they want to spread the company wealth which is basically socialism. The man who owns the company is always going to make more than the workers producing the products and no unions are going to change that.
Lets face it. Products are cheaper from third world countries and as long as that exists stores like Wal Mart will flourish because we want union wages but buy third world products. We expect someone else to buy our products at a higher rate but we won't buy our own. It isn't going to work that way. If I had to take a cut in pay vs. a lost job I would be looking at the cut. I wouldn't like it but if it kept food on my table I would bite the bullet and do it. That doesn't mean that the company should take advantage of the situation and break the worker either.
No good can come from the government taking over pensions or taking over any industry. The less the government is involved the better. If CEOs have mismanaged their company or broke the law in their decisions then they need to be brought before a judge to determine their punishment. Salaries are determined by board members and stockholders. If they don't like the salaries their managers are making they can cut them if they desire.
FWIW, no one is going to tell me how foreign made products are any better than American made. I can see and there just isn't that much of a gap if any. I've personally had good luck with GM products and others have had good luck with Ford and Chrysler products. Anything mechanical can get miss-assembled and break and that isn't limited to American products. Lets face it. If Ford or GM place a label crooked on a car it would be all over the news. If Honda or Toyota did the same it wouldn't even be a page 12 footnote. Just like the recent election the MSM seem to overlook a lot of foreign manufacturer defects but would pounce if Detroit even farts wrong.