If a Ford worker is earning us$73 an hour, how much does a manager earn?

Chances are the US congress will after negotiation give Detriot the bridge loan that the US auto industry is seeking, to ease their cash flow. The talking heads and the media are more or less drumming the same tattoo: the worker is to largely blame for the sad state of affairs that Detriot is in. He earns too much. Let her take a good cut in pay, in order to make the US auto industry more competitive. Look at Nissan, Toyoda, Hyundai, and other foreign car makers the workers of whom earn half of what a Detriot worker does. Why? the unions. Nissan et al. put plants in the South, in anti union states, for the simple reason that they can play workers less. So, largely writ, the attack on the unions and the so called high paying worker is a smoke screen to let off the hook an inefficient, highly paid bloated management. It seems as though today in the US, management is sacrosanct, but the ordinary union gal or guy isn't. He's greedy whilst management are saints. What a laugh. What has happened to the idea that the higher up the chain of command you go, the more responsable you are for what happens to a company's fortune? Apparently, that thought doesn't enter the calculus of blame. And how much do management earn? Well high multies of 10's, 50's, 100's 400's than the ordinary Jane or Joe on the assembly line. And if times are tough the union member tightens his belt, whilst management continues its high standard of living with full medical and other social benefits. Good year, bad year, management enjoys the good life. It's time to hold management's feet to the fire and let them share the lion's share of blame and sacrifice which hardly will make up for the hardship of the ordinary worker and a worker who is a union member. It's not the union member that should worry so much the banks and government but management who is let off the hook and continue a style of living which is condemnable on all points of the compass.