United Against Work and Sweden

You Aint' working and Sweden

So whenever I say that socialism does not work, someone has to bring up Sweden.  News Flash, Sweden is not doing so great.  First, it's a small country.  Second, two major companies just left Sweden because they can't compete there.  (Saab and Volvo).  Thirdly, because it's a small country, the government only has to make a fraction of the jobs a larger country like the US has to make.  We will see how long Sweden's model will last.
Even China recognizes that the free market works in most situations.  China is not socialist, they are a dictatorship posing as true communism.

On another note, the UAW is killing themselves.  I agree that the top executives can be greedy and do take too much in bonuses.  However, the UAW does not help the situation.  A company whose name I cannot reveal because I learned of it in confidence had to close a plant in Detroit because it was uncompetitive.  They opened a new plant 100 miles away in Michigan and negotiated with the UAW to get a wage rate lower than in Detroit.  Where do you think the jobs went?  The same company offered buy outs to its workers, and they didn't take the buy outs in favor of staying in the job bank.  (Where they just sit around and get paid at 95 % of their wage rates).  The CEO sent a letter to all of them to report to work the next day or they were fired.  They all took the buyout.  What is with this entitled mentality.  If the UAW works so well, why do the Japanese companies pay more to the American Worker than the Americans.  It's because they can afford to because they are still competitive, and are selling.   The UAW can't bite the hand that feeds them.  The employer should be seen as the benefactor, not the enemy.  The companies can't even make good business deals because they are in fear of the UAW.  Something has to give.  Both sides need to work for the betterment of the company, not themselves.  By bettering the company, they better themselves.

Byron Siwelnor