114-7-529
But Young isn't the only politician to blame. In 1956, when I was 8 years old, my Congressman was John D. Dingell. There are people in southeastern Michigan who are still represented by Dingell, the longest-serving member in the history of the House of Representatives. "The working men and women of Michigan and their families have always been Congressman Dingell's top priority," his website declares, and I suppose he thinks he has served them well by resisting, in succession, tougher safety regulations, more-stringent mileage standards, relaxed trade restrictions and virtually any other measure that might have forced the American automobile industry to make cars that could stand up to foreign competition.
By so ably satisfying the wishes of the auto industry by encouraging southeastern Michigan's reliance on this single, lumbering mastodon Dingell has in fact played a signal role in destroying Detroit. He was hardly alone if you wanted to get elected in southeastern Michigan, you had to support the party line dictated by the Big Four GM, Ford, Chrysler and their co-conspirator the United Auto Workers. Anything that might limit the industry's income was bad for the auto industry, and anything bad for the auto industry was deemed dangerous to Detroit.

A. 어휘
Congressman 국회의원. the House of Representatives 下院(하원).
representative 국회의원, 대표자. top priority 가장 우선적인 것.
in succession 연속적으로. safety regulations 안전규정.
more-stringent 더 엄격한. relaxed 관대한. trade restrictions 무역제한.
virtually 사실상. measure 조치. stand up to 용감히 맞서다.
competition 경쟁. reliance 의존. lumbering 육중하게 움직이는, 꼴사나운.
mastodon 마스토돈( 본문에서는 GM을 가리킴).
the party line 黨(당)의 路線(노선). dictate 指令(지령)하다, 명령하다.
conspirator 음모자, 共謀者(공모자). the United Auto Workers 연합 자동차 노조.

B. 구문
- There are people in southeastern . . . still represented by Dingell
cf. represent 선거구민을 대표하다.
ex. He represents Michigan in the Senate.=Michigan is represented in the Senate by him. 〈그는 미시간주 선출의 상원의원이다〉
[미시간주의 동남부에는 아직도 Dingell을 국회의원으로 선출하고 있는 사람들이 있다.]

114-8-530
The UAW had once been the most visionary of American unions. As early as the 1940s, UAW president Walter Reuther was urging the auto companies to produce small, inexpensive cars for the average American. In 1947 and '48 the union even offered to cut wages if the Big Three would reduce the price of their cars. But by the early 1980s, the UAW had entered into a nakedly self-interested pact with the auto companies. After the union's president joined GM's chief congressional lobbyist to defeat a tougher mileage standard in 1990, the lobbyist declared that "we would not have won without the UAW." It was, he said, "one of the proudest days of my life."
The union really can't be blamed for pushing for fabulous wages and lush benefits for its members that game required two players, and the automakers knew only how to say yes. But the union leadership's fatal mistake was insisting that workers with comparable skills and comparable seniority be paid comparable wages, irrespective of who employed them. If a machinist at a prosperous GM deserved $25 an hour, so did a machinist who worked for a barely profitable Chrysler or for a just-holding-its-own supplier plant that made axles or wheels or windshield wipers.
This defiant inattention to market reality not only placed the less healthy firms in peril, but by pricing labor so uniformly high, it also closed off Detroit to any possible diversification of its industrial base. When the automakers' inattention to engineering, style and quality caused them to crash into a wall of consumer indifference, there was no other industry that could step forward and employ workers who would have been thrilled to make even a fraction of what they once earned. Now nearly 1 in 3 Detroit residents is out of work and not many of the unemployed have a prayer of finding a job anytime soon.

A. 어휘
The UAW 연합자동차노조. visionary 비전이 있는, 환영을 보는.
urge 촉구하다. reduce 감소하다, 줄이다. nakedly 노골적으로.
self-interested 이기적인. pact 계약, 협정, 조약.
chief congressional lobbyist 의회담당 수석 로비스트. defeat 패배시키다.
declare 선언하다. blame 꾸중하다. fabulous 엄청난, 터무니없는, 믿어지지 않는.
wage 賃金(임금). lush 풍부한, 유리한. benefit 이익.
leadership 지도부. fatal 치명적인. comparable 공통적인, 필적하는.
seniority 年功序列(연공서열). irrespective of...에 관계없이.
machinist 기계 기술자. prosperous 번영하는.
deserve 받을만한 자격이 있다. barely profitable 거의 이익을 내지 못하는.
just-holding-its-own supplier plant 자기 것만 챙기는 하청공장.
defiant 반항적인, 교만한. inattention 무관심, 부주의.
defiant inattention to market reality 시장의 현실을 무시하는 거만한 행동.
firm 회사. peril 위험, 危難(위난). diversification 多樣化(다양화).
industrial base 산업기반. crash 추락. indifference 무관심.
fraction 일부분, 分數(분수). resident 주민. prayer 성공의 기회, 기도.

B. 구문
-we would not have won without the UAW.
cf. 가정법과거완료 :과거사실의 반대의 경우를 상상.
〈 if+S+had+pp...., S+조동사과거+have+pp.....〉
cf. without UAW→if it had not been for UAW.
[UAW가 없었더라면 우리는 승리하지 못하였을 것이다]
-there was no other industry that . . .a fraction of what they once earned.
[그들이 전에 벌던 임금의 일부분이라도 받을 수 있으면 대단히 기뻐할 근로자를 나서서 받아줄 기업은 어디에도 없었다.]