Anectodes of why Union's suck.

So my wife's SUV lease is up in a few weeks and she's been looking at cars. She's driven a bunch, and researched a bunch, and narrowed it down Lexus RX350, Acura MDX, and Nissan Murano, after having dismissed Ford Edge, Lincoln's MKX, and Volvo V70 . She said that the feel of quality was very distinct between one group and the other, even though prices of all were close. What's a major difference of the two groupings? Lexus, Acura, and Nissan do NOT employ Union workers either in the U.S or in their home countries. Ford/Lincoln obviously do--and the Swedes? Forget about it. They have a 32 hour work week and take the entire month of August off.

So we bought a new 2009 Acura MDX today. The technology is unmatched, as is the build quality. We're doing our part to keep the economy moving, but pouring money into companies that produce inferior product; or more accurately, lesser product for the same price (because they exist mainly to provide benefits to union workers), is irrational. GM, Ford, and Chrysler have been destroyed by their Union obligations, and the lesson in this is that bad business can not be sustained forever. Unions were created in the dawn of the Industrial Revolution as a means to regulate employer behavior when neither the government, nor the marketplace provided such regulation. Unions have been an antiquated system for the past 40 years, and it's finally caught up with them in a most painful way. RIP.