I think more than half of Americans agree with Mr. Trump on this, and on many issues.
Both parties however, are completely at the moment controlled by the “sell out America” groups in both parties.
Trump will move the dial on these topics. I’m not sure how much yet, but he’s a very strong voice on the side of rebuilding America.
We shall see.
Donald Trump is good medicine and speaks the truth. If he comes down on Ford he will have to do with the same with the Nips and Koreans. Do they produce in Mexico to sell here??
DETROIT — Mexico has become the most attractive place in North America to build new automobile factories, a shift that has siphoned jobs from the United States and Canada, yet helped keep car and truck prices in check for consumers.
In the past two years, eight automakers have opened or announced new plants or expansions in Mexico. In April alone, Toyota announced a new plant in Guanajuato to build the popular Corolla, work now done in Canada, while Ford unveiled plans for Mexican engine and transmission factories.
Low labor costs and fewer tariffs are the swing factors. A worker in Mexico costs car companies an average of $8 an hour, including wages and benefits. That compares with $58 in the United States for General Motors and $38 at Volkswagen's factory in Tennessee, the lowest hourly cost in the country, according to the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Ann Arbor, Mich. German auto workers cost about $52 an hour.
Mexico also trumps the United States on free trade. It has agreements with 45 countries, meaning low tariffs for exporting globally. That, along with low labor costs, convinced Audi to build an SUV factory in the state of Puebla. The German automaker will save $6,000 per vehicle in tariffs when it ships a Q5 to Europe, compared with building the same vehicle in this country, says Sean McAlinden, chief economist at the Center for Automotive Research.
Audi also sells the Q5 in the States, where tariffs on cars built in Mexico were dropped under the North American Free Trade Agreement.