[Mr. Wyndham]

America can't compete with other nations in manufacturing because we're too high up on the Food chain!! It's not the Unions fault, it's not the companies fault, it's the way the world works. It's cheaper to build crap elsewhere, because that worker's standard of living only needs a small amount to stay consistant.

Too many people see the situation through a very small tube. Why did all of a sudden this start happening with competing manufacturing costs? Because American workers suddenly got paid enormous amounts of money? Or because Asia, and India started making crap for cheap, and our companies are having trouble competing on such an uneven playing field. It isn'y our guys that are being paid TOO MUCH, it's overseas workers being paid TOO LITTLE in comparison!!

I'm sorry if I don't feel it's greedy to want a decent living. I'm also sorry if I realize that what someone in China gets paid for a job does NOT equal what the job is worth here in the US. That is foolhardy to believe, imo. Lesser nations seek to gain our standard of living in the US for a reason - because we have a very good life here. Eventually they'll reach such a level, at which time it will be no cheaper to make things anywhere else.

Our dollar value is going down, their currency is coming up -- within a couple of decades everyone will be about even as far as value, which makes the only difference in cost the shipping element (See: Australia and G8 costs). Then where will it be cheaper to make things????

I'm getting awful tired of reading all this Union-hating nonsense. I'm not saying anyone's wrong, and I'm not saying that these Unions are always right (Make no mistake about that - they are not always right). But this constant, spit-fire flailing on Unions becuase there's no one else to blame is really getting on my nerves.