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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 2013957" data-attributes="member: 25419">Liberty for sure! Yet it's one issue out of many that need to be addressed - prior to the decline of industry in the U.S. (go ahead, blame the unions) we had laws that protected Americans from competing against 3rd world countries. Today companies have to compete with China, India, Mexico..etc.....because these countries can sell their products here without tariff. So U.S. Widget Co. has to compete with the world price of labor, and bear the cost of the EPA, and higher prices for chemicals, etc.. Until we again have laws that protect American industries (and jobs, wages) wages and benefits will decline. The unions are trying to keep the previous wage structures as long as they can. It won't work.  This is one of the biggest differences in neocon thinking vs traditional conservative thinking. Look at the platforms of conservatives in the 40's-60's, certainly not friends of unions, but a bi-product of their policies were strong industries that could support higher American wages.</blockquote>