Can you be a Democrat and be anti-union?

[1gobluedem]

93. Don't forget

American car manufacturers have to pay for their own R&D and while continuing to pay their employees and stay in the black. Much of the Asian automotive R&D is paid for by the government. The Prius, for instance; the R&D on that was all government sponsored and, as far as I know, the car hasn't turned a profit yet. So the US manufacturers had to be responsible to the market which wanted trucks and SUVs while trying to work on the R&D for the smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles. Not that easy.

I wouldn't care in the slightest how many Americans drive Asian imports if the Asian markets, Japan especially, were open to US imports. But they aren't. And their plants in US right-to-work states are driving the quality of life down for US automakers and that burns me up. I have a friend who works for the UAW who goes on organizing trips to these plants; the inequalities and anti-union scare tactics there make me sick.