Rave this: If you think the Demacrat controlled Labor Unions, had anything to do with all the manufacturing jobs going overseas.

^ Listen to this man.

Of course it is a contributing factor. It isn't the only factor and it may not even be the most significant factor, but it is clearly one of the most significant factors. There can be no doubt. I would also observe that unions tend to control democrat politicians more than the democrat politicians control the unions. Democrats populate the unions and their leadership is generally dominated by democrats, but I believe the union influence is greater on the democratic party than vice versa.

They are working hand and hand. Power/Money. Dues for votes and power from Govt.

They send em over there becuase they want to leave America ASAP they all hate Americans

Yes, a great deal -- they made it impossible to do business in the US

Indeed, my friend.

THEY priced themselves right out of business

While voting for more entidlements.

TODAYS Unions Are Just A " Communist Thug Organization " Who Care Little About The WORKER -OR- THE EMPLOYER ............. and more about absolute power to Crush Jobs If They Wish -and- LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS ! ........ Trust Me , I belonged to one for 18 Years as I watched " my company " getting " Smaller & Smaller " until NOTHING was left . The Union Bosses got rich and WE got unemployment !

Bingo, you nailed it 100%.

They are raising the price of manufacturing, so therefore yes they are driving jobs over seas.

controlled labor Unions + Business = failure, and all the jobs moving eslewhere.

Just another way, Obama is killing jobs in this country.

yOU GOT A TRIPPLE RAVE FROM ME IF i could

Are you keeping up with the Scott Walker Union referendum recall election?

In a word YES.

yippie we won

Right on Hazel.

why pay some HS dropout 45K+ to repetitivly tighten 4 bolts all day long? Why give him a pension?

And don't forget 99 weeks of unemployment and health care benefits.

So his union dues can go to the DNC for more power.

That is not the problem, the Democrat connection is.

Because nobody will buy the stuff you make using costly labor? If you can't sell your product, then you can't afford to pay people and buy the raw materials and operate factories to make it. It is only natural, but people want to make higher wages and buy things at lower prices. Otherwise, Wal-Mart wouldn't be so successful. What is a living wage, anyway. One can live on almost nothing. What you really want is a lifestyle wage, not a living wage. Why not make the minimum wage $1000/hr? Then we would all be rich, right? (You can try to answer that last question if you want, but it was intended to be a rhetorical question, no reply possible or required.)

a living wage is a fiction as the market will always adjust itself. Could pay everyone $1,000,000 a year and in almost no time you will find that $1,000,000 wont buy much of anything.

Exactly! We have as many billionaires today as we had millionaires 100 years ago or so and millionaires today are a dime a dozen. But the dollar has lost most of its value in that 100 years so while I'd like to be a millionaire, it isn't the same anymore.

the same is true with minimum wages and to a lesser extent union wages

Wrong. Since 1980, about 5 percent of annual national income has shifted from the middle class to the nation’s richest households. That means the wealthiest 5,934 households last year enjoyed an additional $650 billion -- about $109 million apiece -- beyond what they would have had if the economic pie had been divided as it was in 1980, according to Census Bureau data.

"But people want to make higher wages and buy things at lower prices." Don't generalize, I know many people who will not shop at Wal Mart and who are willing to pay a higher price to get quality. Right now it is very hard to buy anything that is made here. Take a look at 30 - 40 years ago, people could have a home, car, and send their child to college on one income. A person could go to the local mom and pop store and life was ok. Today you have the big box stores that took over the american dream.

Yep.... and then we had LBJ and the Great Society, ramped up spending on welfare, social security, Medicare/Medicaid, housing assistance and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, increased government spending for college assistance and public schools and on and on. Maybe that had some small part in it.

Enter the left wing.

Unions had their usefulness at one time, but are no longer necessary to protect workers rights. They are just like everyone else when they get greedy.

People can't afford to pay 5 dollars for what they can buy for 1 dollar that will last just as long.

That's a no-brainer.
"Give us more money or we'll strike!" The company makes a lot of compromises but the unions still keep coming back for more. So the company takes a look at the big board of profit, weighs the unions and says, "I guess I'll go overseas were I won't have this problem anymore."
Duh!

The unions are not even close to trying to be competitive.

Collective bargaining tends to replace employment contracts based on merit with ones based on tenure. This has a negative impact on productivity in many cases, regardless of what compensation has been negotiated collectively. As long as union members take pride in their work and bring forward new ideas to cut costs and improve quality, businesses will succeed with unions. But when union members begin to focus on how much they can get and how little they have to work to get it, the system inevitably fails. Businesses that are forced to accept unions have no other option but to pick up their shops and move somewhere else. Management of businesses have a lot of blame to share when they meekly accept CBAs that threaten their company with bankruptcy.

Like from Washington to South Carolina, but the Dems in the Gvt stopped that. One hand washes the other.

Yep!

It was a large reason. The other was the tax code designed to force companies oversea,

...and there are many well meaning regulations that hurt businesses, but large entrenched businesses clandestinely support, because they serve as barriers to innovative new competitors and many businesses like that.

Yes that is called Cronyism or Fascism. Not what Capitalism is.