real manufacturing as in appliances, machine tools, jet engines, etc....it is very easy to prescribe....but near impossible to implement.
Of course there is no room for a union in the revised format...
Lower cost = lower wages....as in no $40 per hour sweepers....$50 per hour assemblers....etc
At the lower wages out put more per hour than in years gone by....
Quality second to none....
Service second to none......
Continuous improvement....make it better, faster, lower cost than last year.....

If this were in place over the last 40 years the United States would not have the problems it currently faces......there would be no balance of trade problems...employment would be BACK to where it was when we had all the manufacturing here in the USA.....there would most certainly be more people employed....etc.....etc....etc.

None of the prescription is new by the way. These are manufacturing basics hammered home by Jack Welch during his tenure at GE.
The automotive industry allowed unions to drive the costs in the wrong direction.
There are so many politicians now worried about who they might offend OUTSIDE THE USA....to take the drastic steps to return the USA to it's former manufacturing leadership.....plus eradicating the unions has it's own political life as well.

Add in the current permissive pacifism of an apathetic, do nothing, allow everything population and we don't stand a chance.

Too bad....it is so easy to cure.....SO EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BTK