Reply #271: My point is this

[Nederland]

The union guys at GM don't have jobs anymore. They don't have jobs because GM made cars that nobody wanted to buy. That's not the unions fault, but it's not the fault of conservative economic policies either. Ford, Honda, Nissan, and Toyota all make cars in the US, and they have all had to live with the same conservative economic policies that GM and Chrysler did, but somehow they never went bankrupt, did they? The biggest threat to a blue collar worker's job is dumb mistakes by management, and being part of a union doesn't protect you from that.