@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
If you really want an overall picture of how American busunesses have been messing over American workers for generations, and the reasons, which include far more than unions, here's an interesting historical lesson from John Kennedy, from 1952. He was there while it was going on, and he has a far more cokmprehensivce idea of it than you do, George:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/54jan/kennedy.htm
I read the article. Although the then young junior Senator from Mass. tried hard to balance his comments about the systematic migration of the former New England textile industry to the South, and to avoid appearances of bias, he ended up complaining that labor competitiuon based on regional prevailing wages and cost of living is "unfair", a truly nonsensical notion. It was precisely the attraction of textile and other manufacturing industries from the North that enabled the South to escape its prior poverty. Implicit in Kennedy's argument was the remarkable notion that the South should instead choose continued poverty over competing with other regions, and/or that empoyers should always remain where they started no matter how much local costs may rise. Either would be a certain formula for economic sclerosis and death.
Interestingly Kennedy ended up requesting special Federal government action to subsidize industries in New England, and did so even after complaining the then Federal subsidies in the production of electrical power by the TVA were "unfair" to New England. This kind of self-serving rhetoric is the common tool of groups seeking government subsidies for themselves, and they aren't even ashamed of calling for them as a way of mitigating the side effects of other government subsidies. Reemarkable !
You can do better than this one Monterey Jack.