When I would tell my friends that their kids best chance for a job in the future would be to sew zippers into blue jeans for the Chinese... but, sadly, our American Dream is truly becoming the right- nightmare...
"The announcement that a German company is opening a small manufacturing facility in Wisconsin brings up a question that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable:
Is this another case of a European company coming to the United States for the cheap labor?
As contrary to the stature we're accustomed to the United States having in the world, this is a very real trend. Ikea, a company that has done just fine in Sweden with strong unions and a $19 minimum wage, came to Virginia and started its employees at $8 per hour, with many of them temps at lower wages and no benefits. T-Mobile, owned by a heavily unionized German company, fights unions here. BMW recently drove down wages by laying off unionized workers at a California distribution center and outsourcing their jobs to a subcontractor. But in South Carolina, BMW skipped ever having a union, paying its workers $15 an hour, half what German BMW workers make. The kicker:
"We are a low-wage country compared to Germany," said Kristin Dziczek, director of the Labor and Industry Group at the Center for Automotive Research. "And that helps put jobs here..."
We have elections, some are stolen, but most are not... and we vote the conservatives back in, time after time.
Even your neighbor, who puts a Republican candidate's sign on his lawn is a terrorist. He is out to destroy your job, your children's education, reduce the value of your home and your retirement plan, keep you away from health care and Social Security.
Hitler and the Nazis, The Empire of Japan and the Soviet Union were unable to do the damage that the Republican Party, conservatives and the media have done to America.
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