Friday, November 21st, 2008
Who Killed the U.S. Auto Industry?
I’ll give you a hint: it sure as hell wasn’t the unions.
Now, all you union-bashers (I’m looking at you, Boortz!), I’m going to ask you an honest question, and I want you to give me an honest response, if you can.
Here’s the question: Do you honestly believe that if the concept of unions had never existed that the auto industry wouldn’t have done self-destructive things like build hype for a car they never had any intention of releasing on the market, fighting any and all efforts to improve fleet fuel efficiency even at the expense of competitiveness, outsourcing all the manufacturing to countries with no minimum wage laws, raiding employee pension plans for executive bonuses, etc., etc., etc.? If not, then why do you keep laying the entirety of the blame at the feet of unions?
