What the Unions Have Done for Detroit

If you want to see the "value" proposition of powerful big Labor union contracts and how it "benefits" a free market place, I invite you to look at what is happening to Detroit, Michigan. Once the mecca of car manufacturing and high living executives, Detroit's real estate value now is worth only slightly more than real estate in Chernobyl.

This is not to say that labor unions have not served a valuable purpose in our society and history. They did. But, they have outlived their purpose, and are creating problems for the very people they once benefited. This happened because the unions became too powerful and in their greed have crushed the golden goose that once laid golden cars.

Try buying groceries in Detroit, Michigan - if you can find a grocery store - that is. See Grocery Store Closing Hit Detroit Hard for full story. Lack of consumer goods. Sounds a lot like the old soviet Russia to me.

Don't believe the Obama administration that big government and big unions are in your best interest. They're not.