Detroit car designs suck because all the smart engineers moved to Silicone Valley. German engineers didn't have that option. I wouldn't use Germany as a shining example of a worker's paradise if I were you. It's a place where they work year round to bail out Greeks and Italians who take summers off. They gave loans to other countries so that they could buy German cars and other products and now those countries are defaulting. That's not a good business model.
Sure there are going to be some differences between what companies in different places are doing, and the fact remains that the German car companies were strong in spite of unionization, and they are also, engaged in assisting in the bail out of weaker economies. Powerful stuff.
Their is no practical way to stop money from influencing politics. It has never been done anywhere, ever. We can only stop the influence OF politics.
So frequently, you are in the practice of making things up and exaggerating facts, so even if this were true, about inability to remove money influence from politics, I would have difficulties believing it. I am NOT going to waste my time to provide you examples in which money can be taken out or regulated from politics. Logically, you have a losing argument to assert such, so emphatically. I see that you like to be stubborn and stick to your facts, whether based in reality or NOT.
Capital is mobile and the rich will always flee to places where their property rights are protected.
Couple of points here: 1) Yes, capital is mobile and labor is NOT. Rules have been made in that direction, and it remains a form of exploitation, the way that it plays out. and 2) yes, some of you anti-governmental fanatics like to cite these kinds of examples in order to suggest and to argue that we should just give up and wave our white flags and allow race to the bottom politics in order that companies can bid down labor and regulations... b/c they will just go somewhere else if we do NOT kiss their asses and suck their dicks. That is bullshit and disempowering to suggest that governments and people have no power over wealthy people or over wealthy corporations... again.. you are probably watching too much Fox News to be blurting out these right wing talking points that are pie in the sky and have only a semblance of reality contained therein.
They don't like being slaves anymore than you do, and they have better options.
Yeah.. .try to personalize these guys and try to get me and the rest of your audience to relate. Part of the problem with the poor sympathizing with the rich too often is that they think the rich deserve their earnings and they believe that the rich are people like them... b/c some day, these poor may be rich... .. Again, bullshit.... these rich people need to be paying more taxes and contributing.. and they are a major part of the problem about why the poor is bearing so many burdens and fighting for pie crumbs while the rich are running off with the pie... if the rich paid their fair share then the poor would NOT have to bear so much burden..
Communism used to cover almost half the globe and now it's a backwater. This war has been fought and you lost. You never had a chance.
poor guy.. you figure that your back is against the wall and have to again resort to name calling.. I do NOT need to give dignity to your name calling... to try to label people as communists or socialists... They use those labels on Fox.. all the time to try to work their audience into a frenzy....
People can be responsible capitalists... and regulate companies and regulate the rich and tax the rich without being either communist or socialist. So can you learn at some point to stick to discussions of substance rather than engaging in labeling and name calling? I believe that you are capable of such self-restraint, b/c I had seen such in a few of your posts.. maybe in your more calm moments.