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2.15.08 @ 12:01AM

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And, as to union membership rolls, the very slight (negligible?) increase in 2007 is directly attributable to unionization of government employees, including T-E-A-C-H-E-R-S.

Might there be a correlation between the decline in (1) the USA's auto industry, or (2) the decline in the product of our educational institutions and the abuse of power by unions?

The US BLS report is at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm.
-- Nelson Ward
Cowles, New Mexico

I had to read the letter from Greg Kotecki twice since it was poorly worded, mostly incomprehensible and written in horrible grammar. But it did remind me that Union loving workers are too stupid to take care of themselves. Thus they vote mostly for Democrats and the nanny state.

Let's look at some of his lies. Manufacturing is alive and well in Southern states. The dying auto industry is only hurting GM and Ford here in the south while Nissan and Toyota grow. Nissan just moved its entire North American headquarters a few miles from my home in Franklin, Tennessee. The Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee has jobs that are as precious as Green Bay Packers season tickets and just as hard to get. The Nissans they make there are in high demand and they are starting a new SUV crossover line.

The same can't be said for the Saturn plant just to the south of me in Spring Hill, Tennessee. That "new kind of car company" was supposed to be different from the top down model but the UAW held GM hostage in 1991-1993 negotiations lest they create a union shop here. The union won. So instead of all the promised local jobs another few thousand were shipped down from Detroit. Today the plant is in its fourth refitting and, I believe, now making its tenth concept of an automobile that won't sell.

The Saturn plant is union. The Nissan plant is not. GM just lost $39 billion dollars. Nissan is expanding.
-- Greg Barnard
Franklin, Tennessee

McCAIN OR BUST
Re: Mike Tomlinson's letter (under "Long Distance Relationship") in Reader Mail's John Dear:

I want to thank Mike Tomlinson for his rational letter concerning John McCain. I, too, am not crazy about the man. But who else is out there, or will be out there? At this point, any alternative to McCain would require a third party candidate that would ensure a Democrat win. Who wants Obama or Hillary filling that role?

And thank God that people like Mike are out there and doing their duty. Take care, Mike, and please come back safely! We need your wisdom around here. Godspeed.
-- Karl F. Auerbach
Eden, Utah

I would like to thank Michael Tomlinson for saying what needed to be said. You hear a lot of angry posturing by self-styled "conservatives" who are nothing but myopic history-challenged narcissists. It is obvious from their bellicosity that their problems are far deeper than the issues they fulminate over.
-- Craig Marshall

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