Posted on 02/10/2016 5:42:19 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
One of the cornerstones of Donald Trump's campaign has been the fact that millions of jobs have been lost to overseas industries because it is often too expensive to do business in America anymore.
Many liberals have criticized Trump for these statements, but the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Ford's latest production move showed that Trump was exactly right.
Ford planned to build a new assembly plant in Mexico in order to produce 500,000 more vehicles in Mexico than it currently does. Last year Ford's Mexican output was 433,000 vehicles, which translates to about 14 percent of its total production in North America. This deal had not been publicly confirmed and a Ford spokesperson simply stated, "We do not comment on speculation," when asked about the company's plans for Mexico. Mexico has become a serious competitor in the car-making market with "low wages, improved logistics and an arsenal of free-trade deals," the Wall Street Journal explained.
If the report proves true, Ford will join a long line of auto dealers making the pivot to Mexico, including BMW, General Motors, Volkswagen, Toyota, Honda and Kia. This shift is only expected to grow because the United Auto Workers labor union recently struck a deal to increase wages for U.S. factory workers, making domestic production just that much more cost-prohibitive. As wages in the U.S. go up, Mexican wages stay the same, and it therefore becomes even cheaper to do business with Mexican factory workers as opposed to American laborers.
The UAW insisted that auto companies don't need to run to Mexico because they can afford to pay their workers high wages. "They're making huge amounts of profits," UAW President Dennis Williams stated. "There is no reason mathematically to go ahead and run to countries like Mexico, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam."
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...
I will buy a car made in Mexico before I buy any car that was made by the United Auto Workers. Last time I checked Hondas were being made in Ohio and Toyotas were being made in Kentucky....by non union workers.
Yes he did with NAFTA and Clinton did it...all jobs are leaving America....just what obuma wants....
Versus, oooo I dunno, 20 to 40 mentions in speeches, some as recent as last night, that he’s killing common core?
The thread about that Redstate POS hit piece on this topic was locked by JR himself. A mistake is a mistake — if that’s even what it was! The author himself of the hit piece was starting to walk it back when contacted by the campaign, that he might have been quoting Jeb who earnestly DOES want to keep it.
Jeremiah knew what was going to happen, but could no nothing to keep the Babylonians at bay. Are we going to get Smoot-Hawley again?
Trump only had one hour sleep in two days, but he said he would end common Core several times before he mispoke.
Typical Cruz loser, snipping the audio and ignoring the correct part where there was no ambiguity Trump has only been saying We will end common core for 6 months.
Pathetic liars, failed try.
A lot of BMWs are made in South Carolina.
In 1990 the Bush family said the way to stop illegal immigration was to pass NAFTA.
It is 2016.
“Trump was right about everything”
But, he is not a pure conservative ideologue, probably cannot quote the last 200 years of conservative theory since he has been in the real world building and running a large empire fighting regulations put out by liberal fools, so Rush has no use for him.
Now, if only he would take the time to memorize a few talking points.....
You Trump-ettes are getting more and more like liberals. One of the first signs of liberal derangement syndrome is you lose your sense of humor. Come on, Trump is very gregarious in the way he describes things, especially the things he promises to do.
Lighten up, Francis.
Not sure if that is true, thou...
That ended a few years ago, and now, I choose to not by from any UAW company.
That said, even if I were disposed to buy a Ford product, the not-made-in-America fact would be enough to force an alternative product.
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Ross Perot said: “You hear that big sucking sound? That’s NAFTA taking away your jobs, they are going to be going south” Clinton passed NAFTA, do you hear that big sucking sound? That’s our jobs being taken out of this country....
Ford had it’s chance to deal with the union in 2006 and they folded.
I don’t buy UAW built vehicles any longer.
——making domestic production just that much more cost-prohibitive-—
but the isolationists don’t believe that
they don’t believe that Americans have greedily abandoned their own jobs
maybe they will pay attention
Ford will now have a global export capability it lost by building cars in the USA
Trump? That NY huckster? With his “NY values”? He’s the biggest, sleaziest scumbag this side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Supporting him = the death of the USA.
(Do I have to write “/s?)
Once again, Trump’s right.
This is a YUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEE deal here.
What does St. Rafael say about this?
How many primaries did Ross Perot win?
The factory will close. The refit to Ford Ranger will be in the planning stages...forever.
I wasn't at the speech and didn't see the thread until after the post...but the guy has been on both sides of every issue, so its getting harder to keep track of where he is on any issue.
Huge profits is not a reason to stay when even larger profits can be had.
The larger profits are only available because we let people and companies sell into our markets with extremely low and often non-existent import tariffs.
It’s time to restore the import tariffs. And make it profitable to produce in America again.
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