America needs to get back to work and stop asking "what's in it for me". Entitlement will destroy this country. If the unions shops are such a great idea, why are they the only ones looking for a bailout?

since before recorded history. No matter the economic status of the empires that practiced it.

And it was imported by those that benefitted by it, where even the poor had slaves. The religious

writtings all have references to it and condoned it. To all these pundits, don't get religious but

read some of those writtings. You might be surprised by the reasonings behind it.

The reason that GM and the "beg 3" make big cars is they can't afford to make the very successful versions of their European models in this country and pay over 1,000,000 retirees' pensions and benefits.

There are thousands of former northern workers now living in the South and happily assembling the kinds of cars people have wanted and been buying for decades from Toyota, Honda and the like. To compare them to slaves is insulting to them and to the slaves who were held down by the Democrats before, during, and after the Civil War. And the Post wonders why it has lost hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers who refuse to buy this kind of nonsense that infects every page of the Post?

Human slavery is, in my opinion, one of the most horrible acts and institutions we are capable of. This statement by Meyerson is does NOTHING to actually shed any real light onto the situation or bring new perspective – new valid perspective at least.

I understand writing stuff like this down, really, but it should stay in your personal private journal… and be sure to wash your hands afterwords, you don't want to spread it. This reads more like an anonymous blog comment than something someone would sign their name to – publicly.

I guess that we will find that out sooner or later, once China enters the US automotive market with cheaper vehicles targeted at the growing percentage of the US population that will not be able to afford Japanese or Korean vehicles, new or used.

My hometown and state will inevitably lose it's core industry, but if the people living in states who catered to the Japanese by subsidizing the building of plants and factories there, think that they won't be affected by the loss of the domestic three, they better think again.

When was the last time Detroit voted Republican?

That's really what it's about — keeping the union side of the Democrat/Union political machine running. What pisses off the Democrats isn't that Southerners are FREELY exchanging their labor for a lower cost than Northerners, but that the Southerners aren't tithing into the Democrat campaign coffers euphemistically called "unions".