[UnBlinkingEye]

So what's free trade about having a bunch of greedy union thugs crippling the economy and putting thousands of innocent people out of work?

We don't have 'free' trade, greedy corporate executive thugs have destroyed more wealth and lost more jobs than these longshoremen and took hundreds, no, thousands of times more compensation than these 10,500 workers.

What's free market about the ripple effect of people who are already higher paid than most corporate executives?

What's the ripple effect of the wealth lost and wealth stolen by corrupt or just over compensated, incompetent corporate executives?

[discostu]

Problem is mathematics of scale. If the 10,500 longshoremen are over paid by a mean average of 25k/year (given what they make compared to positions requiring college degrees I think that's a pretty low estimate of how over paid these guys are) then you have wasted revenue of $262,500,000/year. Now compare them to the number of corporate execs they'd need to be seriously overpaid (like to the tune of at least $1 million/ year) to sap that much money out of the business. As for incompitency, I'd say any group costing an industry a quarter of a BILLION dollars a year would be the most obviously incompitent group in that business.

[McGavin999]

Well, guess we could just leave them on strike. I understand that Mexican dockworkers are making a small fortune now. We can just transfer all those dockwork jobs to Mexico hmmmmmm?

Good grief, if you haven't figured out that the reason all the jobs are leaving this country is because of the unions greed then what's it going to take for you to figure it out? $80 to $120 grand a year not enough for unskilled labor?