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Originally Posted by lendaddy
I don't mean to be so snippy, but I've seen it first hand here in Michigan. Not only the general auto guys but specifically the tool and die guys. They had the same attitude I see from JP above, "yea man we're the best, we're worth it, we are what really drives this place, you can't replace our expertise, blah blah blah". They got a reality check real quick and so will these guys. I see the oil industry and aerospace getting a massive wake-up call this decade.
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I started in the ship yards making a 1.96 per hour. Journeyman scale was 2.90 per hour in 1964. Now at Boeing I'm at 32.00 per hour. Do you think that inflation has not had a bit to do with that? Gas was 30 cents per gallon back then....for premium. The house I bought in Seattle was 28k in 1975.....now worth a half million.....shoulda kept it, eh?
Do the math.
We are the best (collectively) and have proved it by surviving against the money of the EU....not to mention the rest of the US manufactures. The US auto companies have fallen on hard times. Why? Well..... the UAW insisting on producing nothing but SUVs & Pickup trucks, it's gotta be the unions fault.
The reality is that the middle class is disappearing and you sound happy about it....that'll teach them greedy SOBs. The CEO of Boeing makes more in his first 2 hours of the year than I make in a whole year.
We'll be left with investment bankers and bugger flippers....which are you?