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I just heard Robert Reich on Rachel talking with her about how the Senate deal currently on the table is the GOP's gambit to bust the union -- that the reason those Southern Senators who have foreign factories in their states want the UAW to take big cuts in wages is precisely because they have foreign factories in their states and want to "increase the market share" of their patron companies.
But wait a minute -- one of the big reasons Toyota and Nissan and Hyundai have been kicking Ford and GM's ass is that the American companies have to pay UAW wages. Why, if your competition is crippled by high wages, would you pull a big "Gotcha!" by making them lower their wages to your level? One of the reasons big bailout bucks probably won't save Detroit is precisely because the systemic problem of high wages and benefits is what's killing them. I don't get Corker and that other cracker with the lopsided mouth -- why they're fighting a package that leaves Detroit as ill-equipped to compete with their home-state factories' products as before.
Can someone enlighten me?
