If Honda, Toyota, Mazda, and Nissan can all establish manufacturing plants in the US and produce a quality product while making a profit, perhaps its time to stop blaming government and labor and take a look at the corprations, themselves, and the people who run them.
Worth repeating!
OK, "free traders," so how come so many U.S. corporations say they have to move domestic goods manufacturing off shore and then import the stuff for sale here to be competitive (Outsourcing offshore is necesary! say the "free traders").
Besides, say the "free traders," we benefit from other countries outsourcing jobs to us.
And of course that's right -- but they make and sell their stuff here. They are doing what our guys say is virtually impossible. Why?
If our guys were selling their stuff over there and not exporting it back here for sale -- that'd be great!
(Yes, we sell tons of stuff in Europe. I'm talking mostly "cheap labor" China and other "emerging nations.")
These plants are usually in low tax, nonunion states, so I'd say blaming government and (union)labor is exactly the right thing to do.