Ford Motors cancels plan for $1.3 billion plant in Mexico. Will instead invest $700 million in Michigan plant

Bro, everybody goes to college.

11% unemployment in a manufacturing town with 5 million people and you don't think there are many qualified or qualifiable workers?

dad fraud wrote:

Bro, everybody goes to college.

11% unemployment in a manufacturing town with 5 million people and you don't think there are many qualified or qualifiable workers?

I think it is quite possible. You or the other poster are free to prove otherwise.

Economics prof wrote:

Not a straw man at all. Detroit is part of Michigan which has effectively reached full unemployment. Your "available workers" are too few and likely lack either the skills or the desire to do these jobs. Bring on the Mexicans.

Wow. Racist to boot.

This entire discussion is useless based on the fact that the Sprint jobs were negotiated long before TRump was even nominated and the CEO of ford says the plant staying in Michigan had absolutely nothing to do with Trump.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/18/502528759/trump-claims-credit-for-keeping-ford-lincoln-production-in-kentucky

Just another example of this clown takes credit for s**t he didn't do. Watch how he blames all his f**k ups on everybody else.

One question.....How would the country be acting if Obama referred to the GOP as a "bunch of clowns."??

Free trade, policies like NAFTA, give comparative advantages where they belong. Good jobs in Mexico may mean less immigration, a lower need for the Great Wall and may lower the cost to the US. Issues need to be explored deeper then the surface conservatives.

So by your logic slavery is ok becuase it lowers the cost of living?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988/Mass-suicide-protest-at-Apple-manufacturer-Foxconn-factory.html

So 0.6 million less investment from Ford

B Obuma wrote:

This is... uh... not the direction we want to see this country go. We are a ... global society. We ... support ... our brethren in Mexico, and these jobs would have benefited a great many families. I am very saddened and ... a little concerned at the ... nationlist propaganda coming from our ... folks across the aisle. We will continue to ... fight ... against prosperity ... uh I mean tyranny. And we will stand united in ... poverty. I mean ... uh ... united against Nazis ... uh I mean ... long live Obamacare.

Perfect!!!!!!

He's probably right as ususal, you must have the memory of a goldfish. Trump said airforce one would cost $4 billion. Boeing and the liberal lie stream media said $170 million obviosly after two days it was pointed that it actually does cost $4 billion

I don't want to spoil this tantrum between Trump vs Clinton supporters, but the reality is that the decision to not build the plant in Mexico had nothing to do with Trump or whether or not he has a socialist agenda etc. People aren't buying small cars in the US - at the time the decision to build a factory in Mexico was made, it made economic sense, it no longer makes economic sense to do so because there is no demand for the cars that they were to be building.

(The same can be said about the embarrassing tweet with regard to GM as the cars being built in Mexico simply are not being shipped to the US except in very small numbers).

The rather bland reference to Trump's policies was just a bit of sucking up to Trump (why not be in his good books - and GM's stocks fell after Trumps idiotic tweet, why not see if the opposite will occur) and an attempt to increase Ford sales to the die hard Trump supporters who don't much care about facts and economic feasibility studies. This was a smart bit of nothing thrown in by Ford with regard to a decision that in truth had nothing to do with Trump.

This entire thread is embarrassing for both sides, as again, this was a business decision based on sales projections, not trade tariffs or tweets. The only smart idea was Ford throwing out the bit about Trumps polices, which while meaningless, could possibly increase profits. What the world has learned is that fools are easily swayed by words that don't need to be true or have any real meaning behind them. Well done Ford.

The debate going on is wildly entertaining. Republicans have become the party of the little guy who can't compete in capitalism without gov't intervention. Democrats are now completely bifurcated into those on welfare and elite high earners. This remarkable shift happened because 1.) Trump and 2.) people identify so strongly with their party that they don't even pay attention to issues.

If Democrats are against government intervention (Carrier), they should support tax cuts on the rich. And the opposite applies to republicans. Democrats are only trying to oppose trump, and republicans are only trying to support him. What happened to intellectually honest assessment of issues?

What does this story have to do with Trump or Republicans or Democrats?

LRC posters don't buy American cars (see other thread on sportscars... Miatas, Porsches, Nissans all touted). STFU unless you are like me and actually own a god's honest American vehicle.

All of my Toyota's were made in America.

my jeep was made in america and it sucks

Jeeps are know to be quite unreliable vehicles.

I own a Buick and a Jeep.

But they aren't all American parts or American made.

Ignore California and Trump won the nationwide popular vote in the other 49 states by ~1.2million votes.

Yes ignoring California to make a point is stupid but ignoring California, because it is the electoral college that decides who gets to be president, is not.

Ignore 80,000 people in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Hillary wins!

What's your point again?