Actually, I place the blame EXACTLY where it belongs. The greed of the One Percent.
They didn't really give the consumer a choice when they moved the industry, did they?
Used to be that we had reasonable wealth distribution, then the rich got greedy.
Consumers had a choice many years ago when stores would purchase cheap foreign products and more expensive American made products. Their consumers most always chose cheaper foreign products hands down, and still do today.
That's why brick and mortar stores are going out of business; because it's cheaper to buy online at times than go to a store where they have top pay all those employees, pay the electric and gas bills, pay the property taxes, maintain the parking lot, and in lower income areas, suffer the theft loss.
If you think you can open up a company paying high wages to have people do monkey jobs, and sell your products at a store next to Chinese products, have at it, and give us all the secret how you did it. Your business will be closed in a few months, and maybe then you'll understand why we had to get rid of unions.
Here's the thing, your argument would work if we were competing against non-union guys. The car makers in Japan and Germany have stronger unions than we do, and a higher rate of unionization, and they are kicking our asses so bad you'd forget they lost WWII.
Now why is that? Could it because while they were concentrating on quality, our one percenters were concentrating on profit. Take a look at a list of the worst cars ever made. Detroit needs to be happy they tried to make the Yugo a thing, because otherwise it would be crap cars like the Chevette, the Pinto, the Corvair.
First of all, unions in other countries are not even close to ours here, and I posted the link for you the last time we had this conversation. They don't make the same wage or have nearly the same benefits. They don't strangle their automobile companies with legacy costs.
Many of those foreign made cars are made here in the US, and they don't have unions in our country. They do so because the manufacturers like to be close to their customers to reduce shipping costs. If they were union, those jobs would be back overseas.
Furthermore they are not worthless lazy SOB's in foreign countries because their unions don't protect slouches like they do here. Trust me, I spent years delivering to our auto plants in Ohio, and I can testify just how worthless those union workers are. That's why they are closing the Lordstown Ohio plant, a place I spent entire days waiting to get unloaded that my company had to passed the losses on to.
Quite the contrary, i don't think a bunch of slave raping assholes made this country great. I don't think that a bunch of big corporations made this country great. What made this country great was working people who built it, defeated fascism, created a middle class and made us the most prosperous country in the world.
Your party wants to demolish the middle class because it makes too much money, get rid of the unions because workers have too many rights, and he, just for shit's and grins, let's give fascism a try.
People work in every single country across the globe, but most of these other places are not near the US. What made us a great country is capitalism, and the fact that anybody can become anything they want if that's their desire. You need to work hard, make a lot of sacrifices, take a lot of financial risks, but only here will that payoff if successful.
You don't have those opportunities in most other countries. That's how we are different and why we are the most successful.
Yes, our constitution is much too difficult to amend, which is why we are stuck with ass-pounding stupidity like the Second Amendment and the Electoral College.
Your comment is evidence of why we can't change our Constitution that easily. Every time some Socialist or Commie would get power, we would reduce ourselves to the level of other countries. Our founders were brilliant in foreseeing that as a possibility in the future. So they wrote the document so that mob rule never exists in our future.
