Originally Posted by Sunny Day

But why didn't you just buy a plant in Mississippi or Alabama?
Oh, no quality of life, but hey they got no unions.

In this country we have 3 branches of government to keep one branch from going crazy. It's called Checks and Balances. In business we almost have the same. It's called management and unions.

You seem to be anti-union. But look at Wisconsin. Has for years, one America's highest standards of living and a well paid well educated population. A union state. As opposed to say Mississippi a state with few unions, a population with no education and low incomes. And few rich people.

You don't get it. It takes workers income to buy the products businesses produce.

But let's get rid of unions. let's go back to the days of children working 80 hours a week for pennies and before they become adults are likely to lose a finger or arm in unsafe equipment.

Hell, we don't need mine safety rules. Who cares if we lose a few Irish immigrants in a mine cave-in? Plenty more where they came from.

So what if we have more Triangle Shirtwaist fires where women die because of poor fire safety.

So what if auto workers have to show up at the gate every morning begging for the same job they had the day before. So what if they have to bring the supervisor home for dinner to hope to work tomorrow. So what if his wife has to fuck the supervisor so their children don't go hungry.

Guy told me of a small town he lived in. Everybody there worked for minimum wage. A helicopter company wanted to build a factory just outside of town. The local store owners made sure it didn't happen, as they were afraid they'd lose their employees to the higher paying jobs.
The store owners were so short-sited they didn't see any lost employees would be replaced by people from local towns and all the new job money would be spent in their stores making them far richer. Even if they had to give the new employees more money , they still were going to reap in more money.
A rising tide raises ALL boats.