The local value-added savings that once energized a large middle class in the US are being destroyed. The value-added local economies that produced the incredible industrial might that won World War II and helped restore other local economies around the world have been cut up and shipped around the world. Now we are paying economic bits to bring some of the parts back to the US. In essence, the tariffs have been taken off the products and applied to the workers.
The states of Ohio and Indiana competed for the new Honda automobile assembly plant. This comes after more than 400,000 US autoworkers have lost their jobs. The Made in USA label is gone. Now they call it Built in the USA. They should call it Only Assembled in the USA. The stock comes from the wage slave labor markets of the world. Workers in Central America earn just 50 cents an hour. When they try to organize, they lose their jobs and some lose more.
Ohio had offered Honda $78 million to come to Ohio. Indiana offered Honda about $56 million to come to their state. Also, Indiana will spend another $100 million to build highways, etc. to support Honda facilities. This means that Indiana spends more than $100,000 for each job. Indiana “won” the deal.
This comes at a time when around 20,000 auto parts workers have lost their jobs in Indiana. Instead, Honda is hiring 2,000 assembly workers. This is a net loss of about 18,000 workers. Obviously this doesn’t make any sense. On top of this, a city in Indiana paid $10 million dollars to entice Honda to come along. The money comes from your participation in gambling casinos. So just like taxpayers, gamers are also paying money to lose their jobs.
The state of Georgia is paying KIA $400 million for KIA to build its assembly plant in their state. It adds up to about $200,000 for each job. Many Toyota workers in Kentucky say they have been betrayed. Full-time workers have been replaced by part-time workers and temporary workers who earn much less, around $13 an hour. In 1970, a new midsize car like a Mercury Montego cost around $3,600 new. A first-class postage stamp costs 8 cents. There were many jobs for $10,000 to $15,000 a year. Today the same car costs about five times as much as a first class stamp. This means that there should be plenty of jobs for $50,000 to $75,000 a year, but they no longer exist. Two workers in one family are happy to earn so much today. In inner cities, workers earn much less. In Cleveland, Ohio, Wal-Mart received more than 6,000 applicants for some 400 jobs. These jobs only average around $11 an hour, which means most new workers earn much less. The Wal-Mart store was built where the steel mills once stood. It seems like a sacrilege. In Chicago, Wal-Mart received about 25,000 applicants for roughly the same number of jobs at each store. This proves that there is a large subclass trying to survive.
Reportedly 50 percent of Honda, Toyota and Nissan auto parts are made in the United States. However, this percentage most likely includes subcontractors from outside the US These foreign auto assemblers subcontract auto parts to contractors who, in turn, use subcontractors. Some parts such as pistons and valves are machined abroad. 25 percent of transmissions are also imported. Honda workers in India protest for the right to organize. For many years, workers in other countries have tried to organize without much success. Many organizers have lost more than their jobs. How can any employer live off the working poor in this country and destitute workers abroad? In the Free Enterprise system, workers should enjoy a living wage, but now the owners and employers are far from where the work is done.
Once upon a time, companies in the US that employed 5,000 workers were considered small and medium-sized businesses. The stock market rewarded companies that increased their workforce with added value to their shares when the worker once meant growth, etc. Now, workers are fired for the value of the shares and productivity is based on the same thing: firing workers. Then, when companies need workers, they complain that there are no experienced workers to find.
The first assault on American auto companies eliminated more than 400,000 autoworkers. More than 700,000 workers have lost their steel jobs. Now the workers are paying taxes that are used to replace their jobs. This is the New World Disorder of the Dysfunctional Globalists.
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