Posted on 06/20/2015 7:37:03 AM PDT by dennisw
Union greed and sad ass workers.
NAFTA was signed almost 30 years ago, and was formally effective on January 1st of 1994. I can assure you that the doubling of production in the last ten years associated with "fewer tariffs" has nothing to do with NAFTA.
Exactly! Mexico did not send its surplus Einsteins, and Microsoft planners here. They sent the detritus of the southern jungles and Mexico City slums. They sent disease, illiteracy and the politically ignorant, for us to feed, house, educate, medicate and enslave in the morass that is the Democratic Party permanent gimmedat class. In one respect it seems we are getting the BLOW BACK from the giant sucking predicted by Perot.
A reading of “The Revolt of the Masses” by Jose Ortega y Gassett would be very helpful for a lot people — on both the left and the right — who are really ignorant in matters like this.
We are past the tipping point because of Liberal policies since LBJ. Those policies have put almost 50% on welfare and it will bite us in the fanny as we cannot keep paying folks to sit on their ass. What does a woman and a kid do for this economy without a damn job? She is a drain. We have drains who do zip everywhere in this nation. Put them to work and get rid of Sec 8, EBT, etc. Work or starve.
That’s why I say, sadly and nervously, it’s not a matter of IF this thing implodes, it is only WHEN.
Detroit and Dearborn are signposts. I never thought I would miss the 70’s, 80’s and even the 90’s like I do today.
Yep. Add the lazy SOB’s who drop out and have kids and the parents who allow it should be kicked off any Gov program they are on, too.
The article say flat out that 2/3 of Mexican automobile production goes to the USA. We already know that NAFTA makes this possible with low or zero tariffs
"A U.S.-built Chevrolet Sonic subcompact costs about $700 more to make than a comparable Mexican-built Ford Fiesta, McAlinden says. That's even with a labor agreement at the Sonic factory in Michigan that allows 40 percent of the workers to be paid lower wages than longtime union employees."
$700 aint much. Slap on $1000 in tariffs and reduce income taxes by the amount that all new tariffs bring into the US Treasury. A no brainer
The world will walk away from the largest market in the world?
Probably not.
Even the early 2000s were vastly better than what we have now with gay marriage and other cultural assaults. But yes I often think how the 70s and 80s were better and not just due to being younger. They were objectively better.
In the 70s we did not run trade deficits. In the 80s we did but they were still small. The fall of communism in Russia and Europe plus China becoming half capitalist. This plus bllsht no-tariffs trade deals opened up the world and America to "cheap stuff" from Asia
The "fewer tariffs" STILL includes the lowered tariffs from NAFTA which was passed in 1994, 21 years ago. Still in effect in 2015. I read elsewhere that 3/4 of Mexican production goes to the US.
The tariffs lowered by NAFTA are the reason US auto and other manufacturing left for Mexico in a "giant sucking sound" till we now have a $60 billion trade deficit with Mexico.
Whatever is being exported to Europe is too small to be creating these stats. They are created by exports to the US and Canada.
A GM Line Worker makes $58 an hour in Wages and Benefits?
I obviously went into the wrong line of work. LOL
The Japanese have some Mexican factories and I’ll bet some production gets shipped to Japan and Latin America
the young US citizens are being shafted and they don't even realize it....by young, I mean most people under 45.....
this article was pretty much lifted from a recent Forbes article
it verges on plagerism
That $6,000 tariff to Europe the article states seems pretty implausible. Are we to believe that the Mercedes and BMWs produced in Alabama and SC carry a $6,000 tariff if imported into Germany or other EU nations?
I think those vehicles made in the US are models only made here, so there would be no reason for such a high tariff on either end.
If true, we wouldn't need a massive trade agreement to negotiate those tariffs away.
It is an AP article. Perhaps AP is distributing it for Forbes?
Yep, and even a vehicle or two will be sold in Mexico. I can't find anything that tells how many vehicles are exported to each importing nation from Mexico, but more than 3/4 goes to the US and Canada.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2014/08/20/americas-car-capital-will-soon-be-mexico/
You are right. It is plagiarized from Forbes along with some non-Forbes material.
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