Okay, fine.

You may have something to defend, but you don’t have to defend anything.
Everybody thinks (knows) they’re right.

So what now

Sell soon. Looks like we could be in for a 50% decline in NYC real estate value before this is over, and $325 is a definite possibility for LIC…

good idea.

The question is how do we move forward now that we know the previous path has flaws.

I frankly don’t think the old debates are worth it. We need a fresh approach that honors multiple views so that a productive dialogue emerges. We must embrace all available possibilities. Folks here just seem to want to bash each other’s brains in.

This is fantasy land.

The only reason manufacturing is cheaper in other countries is because their economies are less developed and companies can exploit that imbalance and looser labor laws in developing countries. But make no mistake, it’s EXPLOITATION.

The Unions haven’t failed America, the companies that push for exploitative cheap overseas labor have failed the world and gotten us addicted to cheap and unsustainable consumer goods.

Organized Labor, with the aid of labor unions, helped build America. For the last upwards of thirty (30) years, labor unions have shattered our US manufacturing base; demanding more income and benefits for the worker(s). It is relevant to each of us to seek more income and benefits for our work on the job. So often, we all want to think we are underpaid. We must reevaluate ourselves and our US economy, thinking of others as well. My point is that the unions has made so many demands on industry for their own membership; millions of jobs have left America for other countries around the world. Consumers have realized the world market may provide more quality products at lower prices than some manufactured by Americans employed by labor union employees. A better American manufacturing base provides a stronger US economy for our workers.

Sometimes, I wonder if any and/or all activist labor union workers can or will look into the eyes of their own children, their grandchildren, their friends, and others to tell them that they, themselves, may have been the failing manufacturing problem of so many jobs losing America; demanding more salary increases and/or benefits.

the real pros will still be in demand.

And even in daily work, management takes that pride and completely destroys/neuters it into something unrecognizable. Work is generally soul-crushing in America, and few people are their own bosses where they can truly take pride in their work and execute to the extent of their vision (and have to answer directly for the quality of their work).

Don’t tell me no one takes pride in their work anymore- there are plenty that do. But there’s a huge system that won’t let them do it, and plenty more who once cared but have been beaten down too many times to bother sticking up for their craft anymore.

#16 has it right on the money. Unfortunately there are still some heavy breathing drunken brokers milling about.

I’m bidding $400 a square foot for new construction. Any sellers?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/185678