Alk: don't worry you wont piss me off. i don't get emotional over internet posters..
25k is the tip of the berg for a uaw worker. that is not even salary. leave out legacy costs and its still roughly 35k.
i just think you have been fed a load of crap about the wages for auto workers in this country.
our "poor" are pretty well off compared to alot of other countries.
30 hour work weeks,4 weeks paid vacation and retirement at 45 are luxuries we don't have but then again our collapse is slower than greece so there is that...
If you say so I will believe you! I just can name numbers from books and those I learned over here. I haven't worked or managed working in the States so who am I to question you numbers.
Besides taxes and more flexibel hire there is of course the savings on shipping those heavy cars you buy over the oceans.
The greek collabse was bound to happen. They have a very small group of people sharing political and economical power amongst themselfs. They fucked the country pretty bad for their own benefit. That's what drives those people who will have to pay for that on the streets. I really can feel them.
The difference is, the greek collabse the european union will be able to pay for. Give it a few weeks and there will be plans to help them standing on their own feet soon. I'm sure the EU will help the Greek to build up their economy again, just like the US did with the german economy after WW2.