You asked: "So you’re really no fan of American workers, eh? How much should their wages be cut to satisfy you?"
I am going to plagiarize UMCRevMom in answering you...
IMHO, she has encapsulated the best short response to your question...
"It is a fact AFL-CIO union protects autoworkers from being terminated. My father worked for Ford in Dearborn. He shared with me many things:
Examples:
-a co-worker chose his Rehab in Hawaii to save his vaction time.
-prior to election AFL-CIO called each employee to ask which party/candidate they were going to vote for. Jr-Hi students had mock elections in Social Studies to determine party vote choice. (This is personal knowledge as I was kicked in hall for indication Republican party)
My father and I were walking to the local store to buy milk.. we didn’t own a car. When I told my dad. He told shared the prior story of being quizzed by union representatives.
My father was a strong committed tithing Christian that weekly went with holes in his church shoes or re-soled by the local cobbler. I knew he wouldn’t purposefully lie. I asked him what did he do? How did he handle it? He payed for a second. Then, he said I have a wife and family to support. I tell them what they wanted to hear as God understood my answer was under duress.
1- Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt 19 November 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59346106
2- The labor movement and its members have long suffered from extortion, thievery, and fraud. Corrupt labor officials have used union power to extort money from businesses. Labor racketeering has been a major source of the Cosa Nostra crime families’ power and wealth since the 1930s. Nonetheless, combating labor racketeering did not become a federal law enforcement priority until Jimmy Hoffa’s assassination in 1975. The U. S. Department of Justice, beginning in the early 1980s, brought or threatened civil racketeering lawsuits against numerous mobbed-up locals and four international unions. These lawsuits led to an unprecedented effort by court-appointed monitors and trustees to purge the corrupted unions of racketeers and racketeering and to reform the unions. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1147700
DEMOCRAT POLITICAL CAUSATION:
re: creating fuel “efficiency”
My Dad would say American auto industry can compete world-wide bu handicapped by politicians.
1-Required one standard of fuel efficiency then lowered when it was accomplished!
2. Inequitable tariffs
“A combination of several years of declining automobile sales and scarce availability of credit led to a more widespread crisis in the United States auto industry in the years of 2008 and 2009.
Following dramatic drops in automobile sales throughout 2008, two of the “Big Three” U.S. automakers – General Motors (GM), and Chrysler – requested emergency loans in order to address impending cash shortages. By April 2009, the situation had worsened such that both GM and Chrysler were faced with imminent bankruptcy and liquidation. With the intent to prevent massive job losses and destabilizing damage to the entire manufacturing sector, the U.S. and Canadian governments provided unprecedented financial bailout ($85 billion) support to allow the companies to restructure and jettison legacy debt via Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Both companies separately filed for this protection by June 1.”
General Motors emerged from bankruptcy as a new company majority-owned by the United States Treasury (Detroiters call G.M. Government Motors after Obama fired CEO],
and Chrysler emerged owned primarily by the UNITED AUTO WORKERS UNION and by Italian automaker Fiat S.p.A. Both companies terminated agreements with hundreds of their dealerships and GM discontinued several of its brands as part of bankruptcy proceedings.
FORD SURVIVED BECAUSE STEPPED AWAY FROM TABLE OF OBAMA BAIL-OUT CASH:
“Ford Motor Company was able to survive without entering bankruptcy partly due to a large line of credit which it obtained in 2007.”
My father passed away. I don’t know name but Ford employees funded as well with a type of investment product best described by me as working like kind of Investment Trust. Probable exactly wrong terminology! LOL
Mom bought a condo in our state to be near me with this product.