Unions... A Socialist Concept!

Ford and GM have established production facilities in China, India, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico and other low-labor-cost countries. Why?

Why would a United States of America corporation produce automobiles overseas? Survival!

China pays its factory workers $2 to $3 dollars an hour compared to a United Auto Workers $30 to $40 when including benefits. So, lets pretend for a moment that U.S. automakers are in the business to make money; OHHH, they are!

Now lets look at Federal tax rates businesses pay to have the privilege of providing jobs to their citizens. The U.S. has the second highest Corporate tax rate in the world! China, India, Brazil, and Mexico have the lowest!

Now lets pretend for a moment you are the CEO of Ford or GM and you must make a profit or close the doors! What do you do? Again, easy answer; move production overseas!

The Democrat (liberal) solution to this crisis is to raise corporate taxes and to back the UAW; demanding higher wages and benefits for UAW members. Democrats blame BIG BUSINESS and Republicans for sending jobs overseas (buzz-word; outsourcing). When it is Democrat and its Union Buddies that forced the jobs overseas in the first place!

Republicans on the other hand want to lower the tax rate and demand that auto workers (UAW) give back in order to save U.S. jobs!

I have toured an automobile plant! Building autos on a production line is not rocket science! Sorry UAW, but the truth is; a guy at McDonalds flipping hamburgers or a member of the United States Military works three times harder than you do! What specialized training is there to turn a screw?

What would the price of a hamburger be if McDonalds had to pay its employees $30 an hour? Or, the annual budget of our military if they got paid $30 and hour plus overtime!

Enough said! Unions had their day in the sun! We needed unions in the 20's and 30's to stand up for the small guy! Not today! We have enough laws and oversight in place to protect workers from the tyranny of greedy corporations!

If we continue to force unions down the throats of BIG BAD BUSINESS the democrats may get what they wish for! France! No jobs, no productivity, no innovation; just a bunch of people sitting at cafe tables complaining about their government handouts!

We have a choice America. Hard work for a fair paycheck or sipping lattes while reading about China's, Mexico's, India's, Brazil's and Thailand's booming economies!

I have advice for the Auto Makers! Just say no! Next time the UAW strikes for higher wages, just close the plant and move production to Mexico! This will make the Democrats happy! More people on unemployment or welfare which means another vote in their pocket!

If I owned a business and my employees wanted to unionize; Simple, I would close the door! If my employees were unwilling to work for the market value of their efforts then they deserve to be unemployed! We call it CAPITALISM!

Did Obama lie about his Plan?

"CHICAGO (Nov. 7) — President-elect Barack Obama is seeking some economic advice from leaders of business, government and academia, making the struggling economy — the nation's No. 1 concern — his first order of public business.

Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden were to meet Friday with 17 members of their transition economic advisory board. Members include former presidential Cabinet officials and executives from Xerox Corp., Time Warner Inc., Google Inc. and the Hyatt hotel company. Investor Warren Buffett was participating by telephone."

Wait a minute... Why is Obama seeking adice? He said it clearly and I understood his carefully chosen words! He made it clear a month ago he had a plan that would steer our economy out of this crisis!

SO, am I to believe he lied?