[JLGALT]

This is one personal story about unions. Back is 1968 I bought a Mustang for $3000. Just last year I priced that very same car. It now costs $28,000! I ran some numbers through an inflation calculator and had the cost of my mustang just increased with inflation is should cost $17,000, an $11,000 difference! Why? Another fact checked that the over inflation increase was the additional "over inflation" increase in UAW wages! What a surprise! These "nut on bolt people" are actually stealing from the rest of us.

And, by the way, when did being an uneducated factory worker become a middle class job? When I was young, about forty years ago, that kind of job was considered "Low Class"?

[Paul Ross]

The 2006 Mustang

is a vastly more sophisticated and...expensive to build...machine than the comparatively lame 1968 model...

Your asserted cost calculation, merely using 'published' inflation numbers instead of the 'real' inflation numbers, thus understates the actual projected impact by about the entire difference of $11,000.00.

Granted, the unions have been gouging in the UAW. But automation has more than made up for the costs with cost-savings. And then with foreign competition that didn't exist in 1968, it has also acted to check the company from passing along all the costs that you might otherwise be paying.

Assuming you are actually buying an American vehicle at all...

[lewislynn]

Back is 1968 I bought a Mustang for $3000. Just last year I priced that very same car. It now costs $28,000! I ran some numbers through an inflation calculator and had the cost of my mustang just increased with inflation is should cost $17,000, an $11,000 difference! Why? Another fact checked that the over inflation increase was the additional "over inflation" increase in UAW wages! What a surprise! These "nut on bolt people" are actually stealing from the rest of us.

Now try your inflation calculator with a non-union Toyota.

[Iscool]

Another fact checked that the over inflation increase was the additional "over inflation" increase in UAW wages! What a surprise! These "nut on bolt people" are actually stealing from the rest of us.

Care to explain why non-union made Toyotas cost more than Fords, or Chevy's??? Car to explain why and how a Kia made in Korea for a couple thouand bucks costs you 16,000 after it makes the boat ride across the pond???