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Right now the Southern states used by foreign car makers are happy as they were many years ago when the shoe and textile industries left New England to avoid unions and the higher wages there. But since capitalists have no loyalty to any nation much of this eventually went to the cheaper waged areas of Asia escpecially China where anyone supporting a union would suffer what the Tibetians now endure for clamoring for independence. Most of us will not live long enough to see the car industries now located in these southern states transferred to Asia. China is already in the process of creating a car industry which will under-cut anything any other country can produce. As the Iranian president said "The U.S. is a spent nation." Many years ago young Henry Ford jubilantly displayed the robotics of the future to a union leader saying "You won't get too many members from these machines." The retort was "No, and you sure won't sell them any cars, either." Can any nation lacking an industrial base such as has been happening with our de-industrialization survive? Revolution anyone?
