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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Re: Reagan FLAME
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 14:57:29 EST
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>> 	The demise of the steel industry and the heavy industry in general
>> is due almost entirely to the liberal atmosphere (anti-business pro-union)
>> which allowed the union leaders and their followers to demand and get
>> non-competitively high wages, ant prevented the businesses from modernizing.

Egad, there's allegedly intelligent people who believe this myth.
Businesses have not been prevented from modernizing, they have chosen
not to because they wanted to maximize short-term profits.  This is
a consistent strategy of over-stratified, top-heavy American management,
where success is measured only by percentage gains in quarterly reports.
Of course, successful foreign competition is forcing them to clean up
their act, just as we Americans have forced them to clean up Love Canal.

Actually, forsaking long-term for short-term interests is a very
American way of thinking, certainly shared with management by unions
that would rather get their members a pay hike than ensure their
safety.  But that too is changing.


>> 	Note: in the Nat'l Review mag a year ago, there was a news item
>> about a steel plant in the Appalachians which told its workers...

Seriously now, you can't really believe that the National Review
presents any realistic picture of American industry.  To get another
perspective try working on an assembly line for a while.  Neither
the problems nor the answers are so cut and dried.
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