Liberals branded President Bush a liar after the U.S. failed to find Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It made no difference that Bush and leaders of every other major Western nation believed such weapons existed. “Doesn’t matter, he lied,” liberals cried. But now we hear only silence as liberals peddle assertions as fact that are patently false.
Example: Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, asserted with a straight face on Fox News Sunday this morning that “the reality is that it’s health care and pension costs. We’re the only ones that don’t have national health care and pension policies of all the countries that we are competing with.” As if Japanese paternalism in Japan explains why Detroit is begging for a federal bailout.
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But Stabenow knows perfectly well that the proper comparison isn’t between what Detroit pays its U.S. workers and what Toyota and Honda pay their workers in Japan. The Japanese government pays zero health care or pension costs of Toyota and Honda workers in the U.S., yet Toyota and Honda still make money on cars and trucks they build here. GM, Chrysler and Ford can’t mainly because of higher compensation demanded by the UAW. Bottomline: The UAW is killing Detroit, not Honda and Toyota, and politicians like Stabenow should stop lying about it.
