Reply #6: In Japan the car companies are treated as a national asset

[Doctor_J]

The workers are paid well, and treated well, and the government realizes the business needs to flourish. And of course the car companies don't have to pay for private health insurance for the employees because it's provided by the government.

Here, union workers are considered little better than terrorists - the root of all the ills of the economy, something to be beaten into submission or, better yet, destroyed. The car company management complain about having to add $2000/car for health insurance, but probably all vote GOP.