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I am always amazed at Americans who support union workers in all nations except America. Americans such as Rush Limbaugh support high wages in Germany with their auto purchases but castigate American union workers. Americans find fault with other Americans who want a fair wage, nothing exorbitant just fair. Middle class jobs are being destroyed, meanwhile we import and buy from countries that have socialized medicine like Japan and Sweden, and even have unions. Consider also the Japanese embargo our autos, and you have to wonder why corporate media never tells this story. It is past time positive images of the American worker and unions becomes part of the show called media in America.

"In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; the U.S produced 2.7 million. At the same time, the average auto worker in Germany made $67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour. Yet Germany’s big three car companies—BMW, Daimler (Mercedes-Benz ), and Volkswagen—are very profitable.

How can that be? The question is explored in a new article from Remapping Debate, a public policy e-journal. Its author, Kevin C. Brown, writes that "the salient difference is that, in Germany, the automakers operate within an environment that precludes a race to the bottom; in the U.S., they operate within an environment that encourages such a race.""

www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2011/12/21/germany-builds-twice-as-many-cars-as-the-u-s-while-paying-its-auto-workers-twice-as-much/


"With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed." Clarence Darrow


"The Hoover-like GOP has been working overtime to oppose President Obama's stimulus package while hoping he fails. Meanwhile, a report released yesterday by the Center for American Progress Action Fund essentially underscores the real reasons Republicans and the business community have taken another equally short-sighted economic stance: fighting workers' right to organize. As Unions Are Good For the American Economy points out with irrefutable statistics, unionization raises wages and boosts the economy because it puts more money in the pockets of American workers." www.alternet.org/story/128297/why_the_gop_really_hates_unions

Imagine if Walmart workers made just a bit more. "[T]he new welfare queens are even bigger, richer and less deserving of taxpayer support. The two biggest welfare queens in America today are Wal-Mart and McDonald's." www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html

www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-walmarts-dependence-20140324-story.html

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