| Re: Michigan is in a swirling-eddie of despair [message #287722 is a reply to message #287631] |
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| nikki6ixx wrote on Mon, 01 October 2007 23:09 |
Yeah... and your country does such a great job in that department too. Only difference is, is that while we are running surpluses each year running, your government will have to once again raise the debt cap. What is it now, like, $8.9 Trillion? Better raise it fast, otherwise it won't be just Michiganites that'll be on the dole.
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That's sort of my point... our country is so far in the hole because both sides wanting to spend government money on their idea of a perfect government... which is just an incredible waste of money.
If governments were small and only spent what they needed, we'd barely have to pay taxes.
What is Canada's income tax rate?
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Anyhow, many of Michigan's problems stem from its reliance on the auto sector. The UAW has done way more harm than good for the average-joe, and therefore, Domestic automakers are having to pack up and leave for other states, or countries, especially Canada and Mexico, and soon, China.
That shift could have been prevented, or lessened if the UAW realized that their demands could not be sustained in the future, or if people dissolved that moronic organization, and accepted the fact that you shouldn't be making $30+ an hour bolting rivets onto a truck frame, plus a gold plated health and retirement plan, and expect to keep it going.
Now that the deal with General Motors is done, only time will tell if the UAW will finally fossilize like the rest of the dinosaurs, or if it'll strangle America's last major manufacturing sector, and die with it.
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But those black people EARN their $30+/hr because they are really really edjumacated. It's true... who needs proper skoolin' if ya can jus rely on good ole UAW?
Again, I'll go back to the point that labor unions, especially when they get to a certain size, do more harm than good. They squeeze the business for all they got. The business gets a profit? The workers deserve more benefits and/or wages! The business losing money? It's because the workers aren't paid enough to do their work.
Bah Socialism.
whoa.
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