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Let's say you're as incredibly well-informed as you say you are. Why are senators -- according to every news source I've been able to check -- demanding that the UAW CUT Detroit's union wages to BRING THEM DOWN to parity with non-union wages paid in the southern states? Arithmetic doesn't work that way. And dammit, you can sound as smug as you want, but I have to believe those senators (yeah, yeah, they're incompetents and crooks, yeah, yeah) have access to the real numbers, i.e. who's being paid what and where.
So, professor, since you feel you've already said everything worth saying on the subject, please point to your post containing the mathematical fudge factor that allows lower wages to be cut in order to equal higher wages.
Or are you just taking the piss out of us?
