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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (437079)	11/28/2008 12:28:52 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573941

The American workers in non-union auto plants are not living below the poverty line. They are well compensated for the skill sets they have to offer. So, unless you can explain that fact away, your argument is nullified. Living costs are cheaper in ALA, KY and SC. Were those plants in OH, MI and IND, the people would be below the poverty line. Companies have gamed the South the same way for the past 50-60 years. First it was the shoe companies. They moved en masse from the North in the 1950s and 1960s, then it was textiles, later heavier manufacturing......now its the auto industry with heavy subsidizing by the states. Each time as wages got too high those companies would move again, taking their plants from the South to offshore. And all through this mess, the South's income levels only improve marginally and it continues to have the poorest states in the Union. I am not impressed that TM is making their plant in ALA work. It works because the state is providing it with heavy assistance and workers want the jobs because they're better than Walmart.....which ain't saying much. Southerners are geting screwed and they don't even know it.