Right. The Germans and Japanese are trenching new territory applying innovating construction technologies. Here in the US we will fail to even attempt to launch anything even remotely close to this because unions will raise hell and they'll get politicians to protect their ridiculously expensive jobs. Of course, private industry unions will be joined by government worker unions who will vie for their portion of the "screw the American people" fund and the rest will be history. Just ask Boeing how painful it is to actually clash with these forces. I was secretly hoping that they'd say "fuck it, we are moving all of our operations to Canada" or some such thing. Only something of that scale will finally send the message to washington and our voters that unions need to go the way of the dodo bird as fast as we can possibly make it happen.
Free market innovation rocks. Anything else is a straight road to third world nation status.
Free market innovation rocks. Anything else is a straight road to third world nation status.