John Hawkins Recommend this article  "Does anybody think it's OK
to have 40-year-old trees growing through the roofs of
dilapidated houses?" -- Detroit's Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr
"A few years ago, the nonpartisan Bay Area Center for Voting
Research rated Detroit as the most liberal city in America." --
Michael Tanner    The result?    1) Unions crippled the auto
industry: The Big 3 automakers could afford unions when they
practically had a monopoly on auto production in the United
States. However, once they started facing real competition from
overseas, the unions made them less and less competitive. The
unions forced the companies to pay out more than market value
for their workers, put stifling work rules in place that made
flexibility and innovation difficult, and created generous
pension plans that are proving to be unsustainable. This
wouldn't have been possible without a symbiotic relationship
between the unions and the Democrats in government who tied the
hands of the Big 3 automakers and simply wo