Would like to give you a couple of things you might want to consider by answering your questions above. 1. The southern states bought the plants. It is estimated that in the state of Alabama, they spent over 1 BILLION dollars tax credits, infrastructure, land, training, etc..... to have the plants located there. And that is just Alabama. 2. You do not have to be in the union to get lifetime health care. Have you looked at the benefits of your local government officials, teachers, and not to mention the federal government members??? Compared to the auto industry, the auto workers benefits are average at best. I know, I just had my benefits deleted after age 65 and I retired from an auto company. 3. It is not just the domestic manufacturers in this quagmire. The US car sales rate a couple of years ago was about 17.5 million vehicles. At the rate it is going the US market seems to be headed to about 10.5 million vehicles. Toyota is eliminating truck production at one of their plants and stopped building the new Prius plant in Mississippi because of lack of demand. 4. You do not have all of the rules and regulations that are here in the US by the east and left coast. And as for no unions overseas, have you not heard of IG Metal in Deutschland??? 5. As for the price of cars in the Detroit metro market, is is a distortion that does not reflect reality. The majority of the car sales are employee purchases. Not the real automotive retail world.