Tapsearch Com EditorHonda coming to America story
March 8th 2011 23:41
Ray Tapajna Chronicles Tapsearch Com
A sad commentary about our times - Private Sector Production Workers Unions are only a fraction of what they once were.
Here is a part of the history of what happens when a foreign auto maker comes to the U.S. This is a story all goverment workers should read as they now are the next in line to get trounced.
Newspaper accounts told how foreign auto makers were providing jobs for U.S. workers. This is the part they left out.
This is only one example of what happens when the Private Sector Production Union Workers are demolished.
1. First of all, Honda only assembles automobiles in the USA. They do not make them here as Made in the USA is defined. They call it Built in the USA now. You seldom see the term Just Assembled in the USA. Most of the components are made by the impoverished workers in other lands.
2. Taxpayers pay for the foreign auto assembly plants to come to America. In essence the taxpayers pay to lose their jobs.
3. In the late 1980s, more than 400,000 auto workers lost their jobs. The foreign auto assembly factories hires only a fraction of this number at about one half the wages. The Public Sector Government workers should have know their time would come too.
4. The newspapers reported that these new foreign plants built with taxpayers money were a godsend.
5. Indiana beat out Ohio for the new Honda assembly plant. Ohio bid $78 million dollars of taxpayers money as an incentive. Indiana won at a lesser bid of $58 million with $10 million of that coming from Gambling Casino revenues. This is how far we have come in scraping the bottom of the barrel. Indiana will also spend about $150 million on the instructure to support the new Honda facility. This added up at a cost of about $200,000 per job. It seems impossible that the taxpayers will even enjoy any real return from this disparity.
5. At the same time, about 20,000 auto parts workers in Indiana have lost their
jobs. So there is a big minus of -18,000 jobs. Many parts and components now come from the sweat shops of the world. Even the parts supposedly coming from contractors in the USA are difficult to trace as to the origin of production and/or machining.
There are contractors, sub-contractors and even sub-sub-contractors.
In other states, South Carolina paid BMW $200 million to come there. The state even built BMW a airport near the factory for the company to fly parts in Other states like Alamaba paid KIA $400 million to come to their state.
Some workers are full-time but many others are temporary, contract or on-call workers who most likely average only about $10 an hour without any benefits.
The race to the bottom is now on automatic with China ready to ship their
automobiles here. The mainline news channels ignored all this. As I walk by teachers parking lots, I note that about one half of the automobiles are foreign brands. They too ignored the subtraction of values and should know that free trade was a war against the middle class. It was just a matter of time until the equation boomeranged back to the front door of government workers too.
Now many government workers will lose their jobs too. Others will be just temporary workers, on-call contractors and subsitute teachers who never will get a full-time position. This is how it goes in the global economic arena. In the computer industry, we now have temporary green card workers coming from places like India who work around the clock for about one half of what an American worker once made.
Our past four presidents told us we had to compete like this in a global economy. No one asked why.
Now retail unions picket big box stores seeking just about $10 an hour for their workers. I wonder how many government union workers cross the line.
A sad commentary about our times - Private Sector Production Workers Unions are only a fraction of what they once were.
Here is a part of the history of what happens when a foreign auto maker comes to the U.S. This is a story all goverment workers should read as they now are the next in line to get trounced.
Newspaper accounts told how foreign auto makers were providing jobs for U.S. workers. This is the part they left out.
This is only one example of what happens when the Private Sector Production Union Workers are demolished.
1. First of all, Honda only assembles automobiles in the USA. They do not make them here as Made in the USA is defined. They call it Built in the USA now. You seldom see the term Just Assembled in the USA. Most of the components are made by the impoverished workers in other lands.
2. Taxpayers pay for the foreign auto assembly plants to come to America. In essence the taxpayers pay to lose their jobs.
3. In the late 1980s, more than 400,000 auto workers lost their jobs. The foreign auto assembly factories hires only a fraction of this number at about one half the wages. The Public Sector Government workers should have know their time would come too.
4. The newspapers reported that these new foreign plants built with taxpayers money were a godsend.
5. Indiana beat out Ohio for the new Honda assembly plant. Ohio bid $78 million dollars of taxpayers money as an incentive. Indiana won at a lesser bid of $58 million with $10 million of that coming from Gambling Casino revenues. This is how far we have come in scraping the bottom of the barrel. Indiana will also spend about $150 million on the instructure to support the new Honda facility. This added up at a cost of about $200,000 per job. It seems impossible that the taxpayers will even enjoy any real return from this disparity.
5. At the same time, about 20,000 auto parts workers in Indiana have lost their
jobs. So there is a big minus of -18,000 jobs. Many parts and components now come from the sweat shops of the world. Even the parts supposedly coming from contractors in the USA are difficult to trace as to the origin of production and/or machining.
There are contractors, sub-contractors and even sub-sub-contractors.
In other states, South Carolina paid BMW $200 million to come there. The state even built BMW a airport near the factory for the company to fly parts in Other states like Alamaba paid KIA $400 million to come to their state.
Some workers are full-time but many others are temporary, contract or on-call workers who most likely average only about $10 an hour without any benefits.
The race to the bottom is now on automatic with China ready to ship their
automobiles here. The mainline news channels ignored all this. As I walk by teachers parking lots, I note that about one half of the automobiles are foreign brands. They too ignored the subtraction of values and should know that free trade was a war against the middle class. It was just a matter of time until the equation boomeranged back to the front door of government workers too.
Now many government workers will lose their jobs too. Others will be just temporary workers, on-call contractors and subsitute teachers who never will get a full-time position. This is how it goes in the global economic arena. In the computer industry, we now have temporary green card workers coming from places like India who work around the clock for about one half of what an American worker once made.
Our past four presidents told us we had to compete like this in a global economy. No one asked why.
Now retail unions picket big box stores seeking just about $10 an hour for their workers. I wonder how many government union workers cross the line.
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