[estpeter]

We can't discount the role of big labor in this. My late husband worked many years for GM and every time the contract came up for renewal it was for more money, more benefits. etc. Great while it lasted but the bubble could not go on forever. Something had to give..and it did.

[rodguy911]

"can't discount the role of big labor"Absolutely right. THey(the unions) have destroyed our ability to make anything in the us. NO matter what we make over here it's 10:1 in the third world or sometimes more.Our guys get $20. per hour and the third world does the same job for $2.00 per hour or even less. This trash about how we can produce more per man hour is just that.