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Meyerson: "Is manufacturing worth saving?"

By Shawn Macomber on 8.3.07 @ 1:09PM

Andy Stern's answer, paraphrased and abridged: Um, duh.

And: "All we have to do is redistrbute wealth. And that's what unions do."

Oh, and unionized American auto workers being overpaid is basically a myth.

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Shawn Macomber is a contributing editor to The American Spectator.

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