[revwardoc]

Ron, you brought up a good point about the UAW. My brother-in-law used to work in the Framingham, MA GM factory back in the '70's. He was making almost $20/hr just for screwing the left tail light assembly on 3 out of every 4 cars (someone else down the line put in the 4th). $20/hr back then was incredibly good money for such menial work. He was also guaranteed 3 25min breaks a day, automatic cost of living raises, and he got 60% of his pay during the 2-month summer shutdown for "re-tooling". The cost of payroll drove up the price of US made cars and the quality was just above crap since the inspectors were also UAW members. If the UAW wants to keep itself going they're going to have to realize that their job is to build cars and strengthen the US economy and not just to make their own lives comfortable at the expense of the consumer.