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07/21/2007: "Unions are parasites"

Officials of all three have said they need labor cost parity with their Japanese rivals, mainly Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Studies have shown the Detroit automakers make around $2,000 less per vehicle than their competition, with much of that due to labor costs.

[ American labor has had this problem for years. While abuses existed in the workforce, unions were a terrible solution, because they obliterate competition and replace it with the handout state, which not surprisingly makes awful cars at high prices. The only reason American cars still start at all is competition from the Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s. Unions are parasites. Bad employers can also be. If we weren't tied up in a web of legalese and deception, we could see that and act accordingly. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070720/ap_on_bi_ge/auto_talks