Originally Posted by
BigChief
Whining? This was deliberate economic policy. Investment was all going into building modern offshore facilities. Of course the under financed Americans and Europeans struggled with quality from their worn out factories and ever rising overhead. I know these people. I lived and worked with them for many years. They were hard workers and not given to whining.
Don't confuse people with actual fact...it was all the western unions and lazy workers. It had nothing to do with gross failures of management in reading the tea leaves, or investing in infrastructure.
Labor was going to become outsourced anyway...that's what happens in a global economy...but blaming the US worker is a BIG LIE. What killed the US auto industry was the management of the US auto industry...for years they blamed workers. Workers didn't decide to continue doing the same things despite competition. I got fed that "Japanese worker works harder, and more efficiently" BS in high school.
And as much as I love Michael Keaton...screw him for Gung Ho.