Posted on 06/29/2016 5:46:50 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
Like everybody else said, probably just being shipped out to port.
Don’t worry though. Once they’re done using them in some 3rd World craphole, they’ll be back as surplus for local police forces here to buy for dirt cheap prices.
COME TO CRAZY ACHMED’S! WE’VE GOT LOW LOW PRICES ON BARELY USED U.N. VEHICLES! LOOK AT THIS ONE, IT STILL HAS MOST OF THE BACK END LEFT ON IT! COME BY OUR TENT ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD IN BUGTUSSLE, OR AT OUR NEW LOCATION IN FRONT OF THE MOTEL 6 IN WEST BUMFUDGE! BUY TODAY AND GET BLUE HELMETS FOR THE ALL OF THE KIDS!
LOL
Targets. Just like blue helmets.
Well, I just learned from this article that they are for use outside of the US. Info needs repeating for everyone to see it.
Whoa, you jumped to conclusions in your post.
These vehicles are not necessarily "produced" in our country. Most unaware Americans would be shocked at the fact that our domestic vehicle manufacturers purchase parts and then assemble popular models and various military/law enforcement vehicles in foreign countries and import them to the U.S. to finish them off and sell them here.
For example: the 2015 Ford Fiesta was built in Mexico with 15% of the parts coming from the U.S. and Canada and 60% from Mexico.
Example: the 2015 Chevrolet Camarro is a "product" of Detroit-based GM and sports an image of "All-American" but it's built in Canada.
Example: the Jeep sounds as American as it comes, but the corporation is registered in the Netherlands and its corporate headquarters is in London.
I could go on and on, but further information on the so-called "American" car industry can easily be found utilizing your computer's search engines.
In short, I have a picture of the globalist U.N. creating significant auto manufacturing jobs to any extent in our country. NOT! All the U.N. creates is globalist propaganda and obfuscation. To his everlasting credit, GOP candidate Mr. Trump (and the ONLY candidate) has a good handle on this almost unknown part of international trade and the labyrinth of deals going on that are harmful to our economy.
To sum up....no one knows where these U.N. armored vehicles and parts were manufactured or assembled or finished off, or how many jobs they created....and you can bet our America-last administration or the globalist auto-industry fat cats will never tell us.
Leni
My vehicle (Mercury Mariner) was manufactured in Kansas City in 2006. It was and still is a good product, but many of the parts were sourced from overseas even then. At the time I tried to ‘buy American’, but it was rather an unobtainable goal. There was a sticker proudly placed on the windshield when it was new, “Manufactured in Kansas City”. “Assembled in Kansas City”, would be more accurate.
I disagree. They would face NO opposition at all in New Jersey, Maryland, CT, ME or NY. VA and south is a different matter altogether.
This explains why Canada is adopting an open border with mexico and Obuma is meeting the the Mexican pres and Canadian prime minister today.
It is the cheep labor express.
Wanna friggin bet on that?
Bingo! we have a winner.
My Texas built Toyota tacoma is more American made than just about anything coming from the “big 3”. Hell, Hyundai’s and Kia’s and BMW’s can say the same.
Leni
All, turns out that they may indeed be being built here to be shipped abroad. It’s a shame that we have so lost trust in our government, including myself. But I still can’t shake the feeling that something untoward is brewing.
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Transporting them to ship has been going on for years; plenty of time for us to get used to seeing them, to get comfortable and be unsuspecting.
Yes, they transport them to ship - until they don’t..
All, turns out that they may indeed be being built here to be shipped abroad. It’s a shame that we have so lost trust in our government, including myself. But I still can’t shake the feeling that something untoward is brewing.
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Transporting them to ship has been going on for years; plenty of time for us to get used to seeing them, to get comfortable and be unsuspecting.
Yes, they transport them to ship - until they don’t..
They gotta get built somewhere. Then they get shipped. People put too much effort into finding silly reasons to panic.
One would think that by now the people exporting these things would realize they should paint the UN those Vehicles after they’re out of the country.
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Why? It’s only fodder for a few internet cranks.
For example: the 2015 Ford Fiesta was built in Mexico with 15% of the parts coming from the U.S. and Canada and 60% from Mexico.
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How do they make a car with only three quarters of the parts they need?
I’d guess the balance is from China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.
Back around 1990 a lot of auto parts component manufacture started moving from US to Mexico. Then around 2000 that stuff was sent to China and the displaced Mexicans started heading for the US border.
China has walked up the price scale and you’re seeing things go the next low buck paradise like Vietnam, etc.
They’re planning to start something in Cleveland...
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