Corker's Comments Will Lead to Over-Ruling WV Workers Vote Again Unionizing!

[edthecynic]

The actual article in Reuters says,

As Volkswagen workers vote, Tennessee senator ramps up anti-union talk | Reuters

Corker's latest remarks contradicted an earlier statement by Frank Fischer, chief executive of VW Chattanooga, that there was "no connection" between the vote at its three-year-old Tennessee plant and a looming decision on whether VW will build a new crossover vehicle there.

How can someone call someone else out before the 2nd someone even makes the statement?

Get it? The VW chief says 'there is no connection' and Corker comes out LATER and says there is.

Then, dimocrap scum, take it out of context and present the story as if Corker made his statement first and got called out on it by the VW Chief LATER.

Which is inaccurate.

No.

It's a lie.

It's what dimocrap scum do. They lie.

They lie, they cheat, they steal, they corrupt, they suck.

Any time a dimocrap types or says ANYTHING, you can count on it being a lie.

It usually is.

CON$ervoFascist scum lie while accusing others of lying.

Corker made TWO statements. One BEFORE Fischer and one AFTER Fischer.

From your own link:

"On Wednesday, Corker escalated what has been a seesaw battle between union and anti-union forces, saying he had been "assured" that if workers at the factory reject the UAW, the company would reward the plant with a new product to build.
Corker on Thursday issued a second statement, saying his information is better than that of Fischer, the top-ranked VW official at Chattanooga."

 

[Edgetho]

Does the OP think for a minute that Americans are supposed to compete with Mexican wages?

Because they get paid shit...Companies know this....Thats why they go there. Profit...greed

Let me run this by one more time, you stupid fuck.....

It takes approximately 30 man hours to make a Car. Thirty. Thir-ty.

Got it? Stupid bitch. I've told you this fifty fucking times.

So let's say that the plant in Mexico pays its workers ten dollars an hour as opposed to $30 an hour.

That's a difference of (are you sitting down?) of $600 per car.

Wowee-Zowee batfink!!! $600 whole fucking dollars.

And THAT is assuming that the Mexican Workers are as efficient as American Workers. Which they are NOT.

And that's not counting the innumerable 'Fiesta' and Holy Days days off the Mexican government requires.

Not to mention the loss of control. Especially Quality Control.

You wanna move to Mexico with your gay lover and be a QC supervisor for the Mexican Plant? I guarantee you, they don't use indigenous workers in QC. They use Germans or Americans. You wanna drink water that makes you deathly ill from Amoebic Dysentery, maybe catch a nice case of tuberculosis, have your kids (like you've got any) go to school in a school system that's even worse than ours....

Then there's transporting the finished product to the US. That ain't cheap. Or easy. Or fast. They can get held up at the border for weeks at a time.

You have NO clue what you're talking about... As usual.

VW wants plants here because we are the biggest market in the world for automobiles and our workers are among the most efficient.

And the one and ONLY reason more Foreign Car makers don't build here is the UAW.

Not the wages, you blithering fucking idiot. The Union itself.

 

[GHook93]

U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote | Reuters

Everyone has heard the news that 87% of the workers at the TN VW plant voted against unionizing. That is 6 in 7 voting against it. This is good news, because Unionizing threatens the plant and getting a new SUV to produce. In fact, if they voted to Unionize their jobs would eventually be shipped to Mexico.

But I digress. On the eve of the election, Senator Corker comes out and states "I've had conversations today and based on those am assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga."

This is illegal tampering with a Union election. We should be celebrating the election results, instead we will see the election be set aside and the Union thugs coming in and doubling down and STEAL the election.

Here is what I see going down:
(1) A lawsuit leads to the election getting set aside.
(2) The Union thugs come in and use their bully tactics (meaning they state if unionization doesn't happen they will use their clout to force a plant shut down, offer pies in the sky etc.)
(3) Unionization passes by a narrow margin.
(4) VW moves the SUV they were planning to build in TN to Mexico and there are lay offs.
(5) As the Union makes demands and uses strong arm tactics, within 5 years the plant closes the operations are moved to Mexico.

Good job Corker! Instead of the plant expanding it will be shut down in 5 years with the jobs being outsourced to Mexico.

Sometimes you just need to SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

If the election is set aside, there will have to be a new election.

True, but I screwed up on the numbers I thought it say 638 or something out of 730 something voted against unionization when it was actually 630 something for and 730 something against. About a 9-10% swing. If there is a new election expect some Union thuggery to go down to insure a victory this time.

 

[GHook93]

Does the OP think for a minute that Americans are supposed to compete with Mexican wages?

Because they get paid shit...Companies know this....Thats why they go there. Profit...greed

One reason I think NAFTA was a bad idea, but US innovation has kept most of those large manufacturing jobs here.

 

[Edgetho]

The actual article in Reuters says,

As Volkswagen workers vote, Tennessee senator ramps up anti-union talk | Reuters

Corker's latest remarks contradicted an earlier statement by Frank Fischer, chief executive of VW Chattanooga, that there was "no connection" between the vote at its three-year-old Tennessee plant and a looming decision on whether VW will build a new crossover vehicle there.

How can someone call someone else out before the 2nd someone even makes the statement?

Get it? The VW chief says 'there is no connection' and Corker comes out LATER and says there is.

Then, dimocrap scum, take it out of context and present the story as if Corker made his statement first and got called out on it by the VW Chief LATER.

Which is inaccurate.

No.

It's a lie.

It's what dimocrap scum do. They lie.

They lie, they cheat, they steal, they corrupt, they suck.

Any time a dimocrap types or says ANYTHING, you can count on it being a lie.

It usually is.

CON$ervoFascist scum lie while accusing others of lying.

Corker made TWO statements. One BEFORE Fischer and one AFTER Fischer.

From your own link:

"On Wednesday, Corker escalated what has been a seesaw battle between union and anti-union forces, saying he had been "assured" that if workers at the factory reject the UAW, the company would reward the plant with a new product to build.
Corker on Thursday issued a second statement, saying his information is better than that of Fischer, the top-ranked VW official at Chattanooga."

Fascists are socialists.

And I would just as soon shoot a socialist as look at him.

Get your shit straight.

Now that we've got some clarity on the issue, maybe we can debate it.

When did Fischer make his statement? When did Fischer say Corker was lying? How did Corker's original statement mesh with Fischer's statement?

And please point out to me where Fischer called a United States Senator a liar?

You can't. Because the only liars in here are dimocrap scum; like you.

I win. Eat a Glock, bitch

 

[Synthaholic]

U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote | Reuters

Everyone has heard the news that 87% of the workers at the TN VW plant voted against unionizing. That is 6 in 7 voting against it.

Where are they getting this bullshit?

These were the messages blaring from billboards in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the weeks before the UAW lost its bid to represent workers at the Volkswagen auto assembly plant there, by a vote of 712-636 as tallied Friday.


​

Feel free to Google "uaw volkswagon vote totals" to find whatever source you prefer, if you don't believe the Detroit Free Press - there are plenty of links.

 

[Edgetho]

U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote | Reuters

Everyone has heard the news that 87% of the workers at the TN VW plant voted against unionizing. That is 6 in 7 voting against it.

Where are they getting this bullshit?

These were the messages blaring from billboards in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the weeks before the UAW lost its bid to represent workers at the Volkswagen auto assembly plant there, by a vote of 712-636 as tallied Friday.


​

Feel free to Google "uaw volkswagon vote totals" to find whatever source you prefer, if you don't believe the Detroit Free Press - there are plenty of links.

The original tally of votes was 712-626

87 votes short of passage.

 

[Londoner]

Mr gHook

"In fact, if they voted to Unionize their jobs would eventually be shipped to Mexico. "

The above sentence is quoted for truth.

In 1980 America began a shift away from the protection of workers (while ramping up its protectionism of business through a regulatory structure which increasingly protected American corporations from foreign competition).

The USA had been taken over by president (a movement) which wanted to the lower the operating costs of business. The theory - a good one - was that high labor costs, by lowering returns, created a disincentive against the creation of American jobs. Why have your iPod or Air Jordans built in Tennessee when you can have them built in a Taiwanese sweatshop by workers making five dollars a day, eating dog food and living beneath a dictator?

And so began what we affectionately called the Reagan Shuffle. In the front of the house Reagan would rail against freedom hating dictatorships in the 3rd world, urging Americans to rise up and support his glorious Cold War mission to civilize the globe. But in the back of house he would create the legal and regulatory framework in order to facilitate the partnership of American corporations with Third World dictatorships.

So Reagan made the following New Deal to business. "If your workers don't accept 3rd world wages, than we will help you move your production to freedom hating dictatorships in places like Mexico, China, Vietnam and Taiwan."

"But Mr. Pres., what will the American working-class do once their wages are lowered to the equivalent of the third world?"

"We will create the largest credit economy the world has ever seen. We will fund consumption not through rising wages but credit cards and various debt vehicles, fed to our new class of politically disenfranchised debt-serfs. Like the 3rd world, we too will have a permanent cheap labor economy. And never again will a powerful upwardly mobile middle class rise up to challenge our ownership of the State."

 

[Synthaholic]

The solution, as I see it, is to impose import taxes on cars made outside the U.S. by U.S. car companies equal to the labor savings, nullifying those profits at the expense of workers.

 

[edthecynic]

The actual article in Reuters says,

As Volkswagen workers vote, Tennessee senator ramps up anti-union talk | Reuters

How can someone call someone else out before the 2nd someone even makes the statement?

Get it? The VW chief says 'there is no connection' and Corker comes out LATER and says there is.

Then, dimocrap scum, take it out of context and present the story as if Corker made his statement first and got called out on it by the VW Chief LATER.

Which is inaccurate.

No.

It's a lie.

It's what dimocrap scum do. They lie.

They lie, they cheat, they steal, they corrupt, they suck.

Any time a dimocrap types or says ANYTHING, you can count on it being a lie.

It usually is.

CON$ervoFascist scum lie while accusing others of lying.

Corker made TWO statements. One BEFORE Fischer and one AFTER Fischer.

From your own link:

"On Wednesday, Corker escalated what has been a seesaw battle between union and anti-union forces, saying he had been "assured" that if workers at the factory reject the UAW, the company would reward the plant with a new product to build.
Corker on Thursday issued a second statement, saying his information is better than that of Fischer, the top-ranked VW official at Chattanooga."

Fascists are socialists.

And I would just as soon shoot a socialist as look at him.

Get your shit straight.

Now that we've got some clarity on the issue, maybe we can debate it.

When did Fischer make his statement? When did Fischer say Corker was lying? How did Corker's original statement mesh with Fischer's statement?

And please point out to me where Fischer called a United States Senator a liar?

You can't. Because the only liars in here are dimocrap scum; like you.

I win. Eat a Glock, bitch

Says the liar who lied about Corker not mouthing off first!

No one said Fischer called the lying scum Corker the liar he is, that is your lie. However Fischer's and the liar Corker's statements contradict each other.

From the radical Right-wing WSJ:

The Latest Episode of Bob Corker vs. United Auto Workers - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

Sen. Bob Corker, who opposes the UAW, issued a statement late on Wednesday that said, based on conversations he’s had, he feels “assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new midsize SUV here in Chattanooga.”
The UAW has been criticizing Corker’s public statements on the election and didn’t exactly appreciate that bit of input.
Volkswagen, which has an agreement with the UAW to “align” their messaging, then responded by putting out this statement, attributed to the Chattanooga plant’s boss, Frank Fischer, that seems to contradict Corker: “There is no connection between our Chattanooga employees’ decision about whether to be represented by a union and the decision about where to build a new product for the U.S. market.”
That wasn’t the end of it. On Thursday, Corker volleyed back: “Believe me, the decisions regarding the Volkswagen expansion are not being made by anyone in management at the Chattanooga plant and we are also very aware Frank Fischer is having to use old talking points when he responds to press inquiries.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Does the OP think for a minute that Americans are supposed to compete with Mexican wages?

Because they get paid shit...Companies know this....Thats why they go there. Profit...greed

One reason I think NAFTA was a bad idea, but US innovation has kept most of those large manufacturing jobs here.

So we cannot compete with them but we are supposed to act out of fear and try to anyway in a futile attempt to keep them here when they wont anyway?

This just sounds like telling everyone to accept less in the hopes they'll stay when we all know they wont.

 

[Edgetho]

Mr gHook

"In fact, if they voted to Unionize their jobs would eventually be shipped to Mexico. "

The above sentence is quoted for truth.

In 1980 America began a shift away from the protection of workers (while ramping up its protectionism of business through a regulatory structure which increasingly protected American corporations from foreign competition).

The USA had been taken over by president (a movement) which wanted to the lower the operating costs of business. The theory - a good one - was that high labor costs, by lowering returns, created a disincentive against the creation of American jobs. Why have your iPod or Air Jordans built in Tennessee when you can have them built in a Taiwanese sweatshop by workers making five dollars a day, eating dog food and living beneath a dictator?

And so began what we affectionately called the Reagan Shuffle. In the front of the house Reagan would rail against freedom hating dictatorships in the 3rd world, urging Americans to rise up and support his glorious Cold War mission to civilize the globe. But in the back of house he would create the legal and regulatory framework in order to facilitate the partnership of American corporations with Third World dictatorships.

So Reagan made the following New Deal to business. "If your workers don't accept 3rd world wages, than we will help you move your production to freedom hating dictatorships in places like Mexico, China, Vietnam and Taiwan."

"But Mr. Pres., what will the American working-class do once their wages are lowered to the equivalent of the third world?"

"We will create the largest credit economy world has ever seen. We will fund consumption not trough rising wages but credit cards and various debt vehicles. They will become an indebted serf class, and cheap labor will finally come to America. But it will take time"

Eat a neg, bitch.

The problem isn't that Unions demand higher wages. THAT is not the problem. At all. never has been.

Look to Germany. Their Autoworkers make twice what ours make while their Companies remain highly profitable and productive.

Why is that, you think?

It's because German Unions work WITH German Auto manufacturers to improve the quality and quantity of work while our Unions are desperately stuck in the communist tradition of the 1930's.

I've been there. I've worked for the UAW, the AFL CIO, the Teamsters and the United Steel Workers. I've seen it first hand.

The problem isn't with our Companies, the problem is with our Unions.

I believe in Unions. I realize that may get me in trouble with some our more Conservative Board Members, but I seriously believe the American Worker needs an advocate to represent him/her in the work place.

The problem is -- Our Unions are still stuck in the past. The same exact way the dimocrap-scum party is. Backward, regressive and above all -- Stupid.

We need a new paradigm in this Country. One with Workers and Employers forming a synergistic force that will benefit and enrich all concerned.

But it will never happen as long as Unions maintain the dimocrap-scum mindset of 'Me First and fuck everybody else'

As well as the fact that they're still stuck in an economic system that has failed every single time it has ever been tried.

Unions need to wise up.

But they won't. There's a reason dimocraps are dimocraps....... You're just simply stupid

 

[Iceweasel]

....And so began what we affectionately called the Reagan Shuffle.

I'll wait for you to try to support your steamy pile. Until then it sits stinking up your little corner.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Mr gHook

"In fact, if they voted to Unionize their jobs would eventually be shipped to Mexico. "

The above sentence is quoted for truth.

In 1980 America began a shift away from the protection of workers (while ramping up its protectionism of business through a regulatory structure which increasingly protected American corporations from foreign competition).

The USA had been taken over by president (a movement) which wanted to the lower the operating costs of business. The theory - a good one - was that high labor costs, by lowering returns, created a disincentive against the creation of American jobs. Why have your iPod or Air Jordans built in Tennessee when you can have them built in a Taiwanese sweatshop by workers making five dollars a day, eating dog food and living beneath a dictator?

And so began what we affectionately called the Reagan Shuffle. In the front of the house Reagan would rail against freedom hating dictatorships in the 3rd world, urging Americans to rise up and support his glorious Cold War mission to civilize the globe. But in the back of house he would create the legal and regulatory framework in order to facilitate the partnership of American corporations with Third World dictatorships.

So Reagan made the following New Deal to business. "If your workers don't accept 3rd world wages, than we will help you move your production to freedom hating dictatorships in places like Mexico, China, Vietnam and Taiwan."

"But Mr. Pres., what will the American working-class do once their wages are lowered to the equivalent of the third world?"

"We will create the largest credit economy world has ever seen. We will fund consumption not trough rising wages but credit cards and various debt vehicles. They will become an indebted serf class and we will have a permanent cheap labor economy"

....and here we are. What a great fucking plan that was.

 

[Edgetho]

CON$ervoFascist scum lie while accusing others of lying.

Corker made TWO statements. One BEFORE Fischer and one AFTER Fischer.

From your own link:

"On Wednesday, Corker escalated what has been a seesaw battle between union and anti-union forces, saying he had been "assured" that if workers at the factory reject the UAW, the company would reward the plant with a new product to build.
Corker on Thursday issued a second statement, saying his information is better than that of Fischer, the top-ranked VW official at Chattanooga."

Fascists are socialists.

And I would just as soon shoot a socialist as look at him.

Get your shit straight.

Now that we've got some clarity on the issue, maybe we can debate it.

When did Fischer make his statement? When did Fischer say Corker was lying? How did Corker's original statement mesh with Fischer's statement?

And please point out to me where Fischer called a United States Senator a liar?

You can't. Because the only liars in here are dimocrap scum; like you.

I win. Eat a Glock, bitch

Says the liar who lied about Corker not mouthing off first!

No one said Fischer called the lying scum Corker the liar he is, that is your lie. However Fischer's and the liar Corker's statements contradict each other.

From the radical Right-wing WSJ:

The Latest Episode of Bob Corker vs. United Auto Workers - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

Sen. Bob Corker, who opposes the UAW, issued a statement late on Wednesday that said, based on conversations he’s had, he feels “assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new midsize SUV here in Chattanooga.”
The UAW has been criticizing Corker’s public statements on the election and didn’t exactly appreciate that bit of input.
Volkswagen, which has an agreement with the UAW to “align” their messaging, then responded by putting out this statement, attributed to the Chattanooga plant’s boss, Frank Fischer, that seems to contradict Corker: “There is no connection between our Chattanooga employees’ decision about whether to be represented by a union and the decision about where to build a new product for the U.S. market.”
That wasn’t the end of it. On Thursday, Corker volleyed back: “Believe me, the decisions regarding the Volkswagen expansion are not being made by anyone in management at the Chattanooga plant and we are also very aware Frank Fischer is having to use old talking points when he responds to press inquiries.

The UAW put out the statement you fucking idiot.

DAYUM but dimocraps are stupid.

 

[edthecynic]

Fascists are socialists.

And I would just as soon shoot a socialist as look at him.

Get your shit straight.

Now that we've got some clarity on the issue, maybe we can debate it.

When did Fischer make his statement? When did Fischer say Corker was lying? How did Corker's original statement mesh with Fischer's statement?

And please point out to me where Fischer called a United States Senator a liar?

You can't. Because the only liars in here are dimocrap scum; like you.

I win. Eat a Glock, bitch

Says the liar who lied about Corker not mouthing off first!

No one said Fischer called the lying scum Corker the liar he is, that is your lie. However Fischer's and the liar Corker's statements contradict each other.

From the radical Right-wing WSJ:

The Latest Episode of Bob Corker vs. United Auto Workers - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

Sen. Bob Corker, who opposes the UAW, issued a statement late on Wednesday that said, based on conversations he’s had, he feels “assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new midsize SUV here in Chattanooga.”
The UAW has been criticizing Corker’s public statements on the election and didn’t exactly appreciate that bit of input.
Volkswagen, which has an agreement with the UAW to “align” their messaging, then responded by putting out this statement, attributed to the Chattanooga plant’s boss, Frank Fischer, that seems to contradict Corker: “There is no connection between our Chattanooga employees’ decision about whether to be represented by a union and the decision about where to build a new product for the U.S. market.”
That wasn’t the end of it. On Thursday, Corker volleyed back: “Believe me, the decisions regarding the Volkswagen expansion are not being made by anyone in management at the Chattanooga plant and we are also very aware Frank Fischer is having to use old talking points when he responds to press inquiries.

The UAW put out the statement you fucking idiot.

DAYUM but dimocraps are stupid.

CON$ervoFascists are so stupid they are too stupid to know they are stupid, and it's a blessing.
Learn how to read,

 

[Edgetho]

Corker's comments were unfortunate and will have consequences.

No they won't because it doesn't matter. What ever they may or may not have told him prior to the vote had no effect whatsoever on its outcome.

The only way to know that is to have the vote again after VW makes a commitment one way or the other on the expansion. VW wanted the union, the anti-union claimed that was one reason the deck was stacked against them as they gloated in victory, so it is hard to believe VW would only expand if the union lost, but it is quite believable that Corker is a liar.

Says the liar who lied about Corker not mouthing off first!

No one said Fischer called the lying scum Corker the liar he is, that is your lie. However Fischer's and the liar Corker's statements contradict each other.

From the radical Right-wing WSJ:

The Latest Episode of Bob Corker vs. United Auto Workers - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ

Sen. Bob Corker, who opposes the UAW, issued a statement late on Wednesday that said, based on conversations he’s had, he feels “assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new midsize SUV here in Chattanooga.”
The UAW has been criticizing Corker’s public statements on the election and didn’t exactly appreciate that bit of input.
Volkswagen, which has an agreement with the UAW to “align” their messaging, then responded by putting out this statement, attributed to the Chattanooga plant’s boss, Frank Fischer, that seems to contradict Corker: “There is no connection between our Chattanooga employees’ decision about whether to be represented by a union and the decision about where to build a new product for the U.S. market.”
That wasn’t the end of it. On Thursday, Corker volleyed back: “Believe me, the decisions regarding the Volkswagen expansion are not being made by anyone in management at the Chattanooga plant and we are also very aware Frank Fischer is having to use old talking points when he responds to press inquiries.

The UAW put out the statement you fucking idiot.

DAYUM but dimocraps are stupid.

CON$ervoFascists are so stupid they are too stupid to know they are stupid, and it's a blessing.
Learn how to read,

You called Corker a liar.

Who's the liar again? The usual suspects

 

[edthecynic]

No they won't because it doesn't matter. What ever they may or may not have told him prior to the vote had no effect whatsoever on its outcome.

The only way to know that is to have the vote again after VW makes a commitment one way or the other on the expansion. VW wanted the union, the anti-union claimed that was one reason the deck was stacked against them as they gloated in victory, so it is hard to believe VW would only expand if the union lost, but it is quite believable that Corker is a liar.

The UAW put out the statement you fucking idiot.

DAYUM but dimocraps are stupid.

CON$ervoFascists are so stupid they are too stupid to know they are stupid, and it's a blessing.
Learn how to read,

You called Corker a liar.

Who's the liar again? The usual suspects

YOU, of course!

I'm NOT Fischer!

When did Fischer make his statement? When did Fischer say Corker was lying? How did Corker's original statement mesh with Fischer's statement?

And please point out to me where Fischer called a United States Senator a liar?

 

[GHook93]

U.S. senator drops bombshell during VW plant union vote | Reuters

Everyone has heard the news that 87% of the workers at the TN VW plant voted against unionizing. That is 6 in 7 voting against it.

Where are they getting this bullshit?

These were the messages blaring from billboards in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the weeks before the UAW lost its bid to represent workers at the Volkswagen auto assembly plant there, by a vote of 712-636 as tallied Friday.


​

Feel free to Google "uaw volkswagon vote totals" to find whatever source you prefer, if you don't believe the Detroit Free Press - there are plenty of links.

I already admitted I had the totals wrong. I thought it stated 636 of the 712 voted against it. Might have been wishful thinking. But my mistake.

 

[GHook93]

Mr gHook

"In fact, if they voted to Unionize their jobs would eventually be shipped to Mexico. "

The above sentence is quoted for truth.

In 1980 America began a shift away from the protection of workers (while ramping up its protectionism of business through a regulatory structure which increasingly protected American corporations from foreign competition).

The USA had been taken over by president (a movement) which wanted to the lower the operating costs of business. The theory - a good one - was that high labor costs, by lowering returns, created a disincentive against the creation of American jobs. Why have your iPod or Air Jordans built in Tennessee when you can have them built in a Taiwanese sweatshop by workers making five dollars a day, eating dog food and living beneath a dictator?

And so began what we affectionately called the Reagan Shuffle. In the front of the house Reagan would rail against freedom hating dictatorships in the 3rd world, urging Americans to rise up and support his glorious Cold War mission to civilize the globe. But in the back of house he would create the legal and regulatory framework in order to facilitate the partnership of American corporations with Third World dictatorships.

So Reagan made the following New Deal to business. "If your workers don't accept 3rd world wages, than we will help you move your production to freedom hating dictatorships in places like Mexico, China, Vietnam and Taiwan."

"But Mr. Pres., what will the American working-class do once their wages are lowered to the equivalent of the third world?"

"We will create the largest credit economy the world has ever seen. We will fund consumption not through rising wages but credit cards and various debt vehicles, fed to our new class of politically disenfranchised debt-serfs. Like the 3rd world, we too will have a permanent cheap labor economy. And never again will a powerful upwardly mobile middle class rise up to challenge our ownership of the State."

Right now it cost less to manufacture in America and ship to US markets then it does to manufacturer in China, Germany, Japan, South Korea and ship to US markets, because of rising labor costs in the those countries and rising shipping costs. Not to mention speed to the market actually means something in the information age. Nevertheless, manufacturing isn't coming back like we need it to do. Many factors are preventing this, but labor costs aren't as much as a factor as the left states it is!