THANK YOU!
LOL! I am well aware that the illegal immigration is effecting our economy. I am sick of the lies that they only do jobs no one else wants to do- that's a flat out LIE!
But in this story- I tend to think the REAL problem for Ford has been the UNIONS- not illegal immigrants....
am I wrong?
Prior to the end of WW II, almost NO businesses/companies/corporations gave their employees free health insurance. You got sick, YOU took care of it! After WW II, the unions forced some companies to include free health insurance to their employees and the cost and coverage has now escalated to gigantic proportions. So has the cost of being ill or injured.
Add to that, the salaries and pensions which the unions squeezed out of companies and early retirements, at full or almost full pay, including health care and that is what has REALLY brought Ford to the brink.
The great and glorious American steel industry was brought down, way back in the early '60s, by outrageous demands, a sitting president ( JFK ) who has less than no idea how to govern, let alone handle the strikes, and now, we have posters here, ranting about foreign steel.
Glad to see I misinterpreted the few replies I read -- but I recoil at the mention of tin foil hat. I have been a news fanatic since before Eisenhower was president, starting with the Korean War.
"Red under every bed," "Racist!" "tinfoil hat," and lots more are all epithets used by liberals last century to "argue" a point. It's just me. Sorry.
As far as blame unions -- somebody in management had to say yes to the demands. Unions usually picked one of the Big Three to strike. The Big Three could have united -- yes there were those pesky Japanese. Nevertheless both unions leaders and management share the blame but it does not affect their bank accounts.
The economy is doing pretty good though I wonder about how good are the government numbers -- ref. Post #71 (not mine) but regardless people are hurting as the economy makes adjustments to "globalization." Frankly I think it's too early for globalization -- we still have to finish this war and there's the really, really big one to deal with.
Then we'll globalize naturally.