[dennisw]

If Trump gets elected and if he is able to do what he wants to do.....Just saying but this stuff should have started 20-30 years ago. By this I mean making “trade” work for us instead of for f’n traitorous money grubbing lobbyists and for foreign nations. Plus enforcing immigration laws and building a fence at the Mexico border.

[Alberta's Child]

That compares with $58 in the United States for General Motors and $38 at Volkswagen's factory in Tennessee, the lowest hourly cost in the country, according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Ann Arbor, Mich. German auto workers cost about $52 an hour.

Trade will never "work" for the U.S. under these conditions. If U.S. auto workers even cost more than superior German labor, then a company like GM or Ford should have been out of business by now.

It's worth noting that Ford and GM actually pay their workers comparably to the $38/hour listed here for the newest auto plant in the U.S. in Tennessee. The problem (for many) is that they can only afford to pay their U.S. workers $58/hour if they offset these high labor costs with a bunch of $8/hour workers in Mexico. This is exactly why Ford built that plant in Mexico in the first place.