After about a week of total BS we still do not have a deal to save jobs in the auto industry.  Why?  Repubs say that they are not trying to break the union, while doing everything they can to break the union.  This is just should be unacceptable.  You people realize that we are talking about “REAL” people losing “REAL” jobs, right?  This is not some BS being flashed around, these are families that could l;ose everything and yet some Americans do not care.  That in itself is truly SAD!

Shall we look at reality?

Unions have secured higher wages in particular trades without lowering wages in other trades or reducing the rate of profits. Wages affect an employer in comparison to other employers. The first employer who succeeds in reducing wages gains an advantage; the first compelled to pay more is put at a disadvantage. But the differential ends when the competitors are also included in the change. Any gain or loss is purely relative, and disappears when the whole community is considered.

Sounds like what the foreign companies have done in the South.

Therefore, most of the objections to trade unions are groundless. Their success cannot reduce other wages, nor decrease the profits of capital, nor injure national prosperity. Nevertheless, the difficulties confronting effective combination of workers are so great that the good they can accomplish is limited. In addition, there are inherent disadvantages in the process. All any union has done is to raise wages in a particular occupation. This is a task that grows in difficulty. As wages of any particular kind rise above the normal level of other wages, there is a strong tendency to bring them back.

Sound familiar?  NO?  Try what Sen. Shelby and his cohorts are trying to do.

I want to thank economist Henry George for the ideas in this post.