Posted on 01/05/2017 3:46:49 PM PST by raybbr
Ford Motor Co.'s decision this week to cancel construction of an auto plant in Mexico has shocked that country, causing the peso to slump and stirring up outrage toward President-elect Donald Trump. Anger is high toward the incoming U.S. president in the state where the Ford plant was under construction — and was slated to employ nearly 3,000 local workers.
Usually the dusty construction site of the now-shuttered Mexican Ford auto plant is full of activity. Now only one large tractor can be seen grading roads at the 700-acre site, located outside the small town of Villa de Reyes in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.
Usually the dusty construction site of the now-shuttered Mexican Ford auto plant is full of activity. Now only one large tractor can be seen grading roads at the 700-acre site, located outside the small town of Villa de Reyes in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi.
Guards at the site's entrance say the mood is very tense and that the situation is deeply discouraging.
"We all thought this was a long-term project," says Juan Gonzalez, who had hoped to stay on when the Ford plant opened in three years.
Gustavo Puente Orozco, San Luis Potosi's secretary of economic development, says the news, while not totally unexpected, came as a shock. Donald Trump began putting a lot of pressure on Ford to pull out of Mexico during the campaign, but Puente says Ford officials in Mexico kept assuring him the project was moving forward, and he says construction kept going.
Ford says market forces prompted it to cancel the Mexico plant — small cars, like the Ford Focus that was to be built there, just haven't been selling well, especially with low gas prices.
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Yeah, because the U.S. president's primary responsibility is to foreigners. /s
I listened to this report live yesterday. The reporterette gave a much more desperate sounding verbal report.
All I kept yelling at the radio was: "Who gives a shit!?!?"
Cease drug exportation and we’ll see if we can’t come do some fracking and mining.
Chingao!
Hey Mexico, get ready to pay for that wall and take your illegals back.
No offense to Mexico, but try solving your own problems instead of shipping them to us. We have our own problems, and would gladly do a trade. For each quality worker you provide us, we will give you give (5) liberals.
We will throw in non-achievement marshmallow major politicians of any quantity at no cost whatsoever.
We also offer Hollywood airheads for which we will PAY you one kilobuck for each one you accept.
(Note, absoutely NO returns on any of our losers going your way.)
Here’s a VERY good article about how Rockefeller and Kissinger planned to move US manufacturing to China in the early 70s. Nixon opposed it and they had him impeached for it.
Sucks when it happens to you.
Chinga Mejico. They need to address their own employment problems.
Serfs and peasants are so European from the middle ages.
"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
Are Mexicans lazy or stupid?
Mexico is a sovereign nation. Instead of being a country of poor parasites, perhaps they could invest their considerable resources, oil wealth and personnel and create their own indiustrial goods. LED lights, perhaps a truck or car, perhaps laptop computers. Dell and Apple can use some solid competition.
So, which excuse will they choose? Too stupid or too lazy?
Crujir de dientes.
How long before Mexico begs to pay for the wall?
I think a 50% surcharge on all western union money transfers back to Mexico, would be the last straw. It would also be the easiest way to self-deport millions of the illegals.
Bilateral ties are made after you build that wall and pay for it.
Tough Fn Tacos
I see Trump devoting some time to helping other countries negotiate deals that the USA is not involved in.
” For each quality worker you provide us, we will give you give (5) liberals.”
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And to sweeten the deal even more, we’ll add 5 peaceful muslims and a freshly constructed mosque.
Crujir de dientes?
Love your creative license with the headline. Keep up the good work!
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