[Gondring]

Thus when America was thrust into the Global Economy, GM and Ford had to compete with cars made overseas in factories in postwar Japan and Germany, then Korea, where health and safety standards were much lower, wages were a fraction of those paid U.S. workers, and taxes were and are often forgiven on exports to the United States.

That's the part that the Left always forgets or ignores. Passing laws that restrict Americans is one thing, but it hurts us in the global competition and we aren't the only show in town anymore.

[PUGACHEV]

"Passing laws that restrict Americans is one thing, but it hurts us in the global competition and we aren't the only show in town anymore."

How does that argument square with the fact that when Toyota, Nissan, and VW build plants over here, they still produce cars profitably while Detroit does not? Leaving aside the perceived quality of the product, and the corporate philosophy, which are areas in which the foreign car makers have a clear business advantage over the Big Three, the only other differences I can see are that the foreign car makers locate in Right to Work States where the unions have less power, and that the Detroit is horribly burdened with having to pay benefits to retired workers under past union contracts.