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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Mexico has it’s own natural resources. Let them compete like the rest of us and build their own industries. Clean up their govt and get a rule of law for crying out loud. These Mexicans protesting in San Diego should protest in Mexico City.
A family member had to watch co-workers get laid off as his company built facilities in Mexico. Then the Mexican employees came up here and the U.S. employees were expected to train them to do their jobs. It's like helping build the gallows from which you will hang!
He also said that if a company closes up shop in Mexico they have to leave equipment and assets there. I found that amazing.
Only one problem.. we don’t need any imported workers.. Period..
until every american who wants a job (and those who are able bodied to hold a job) has one, we have no reason to import more.
Maybe we should try dumping our “no want” welfare queens and white trash across the border now like they are to us.
Those sound like excellent deals to me, especially the “no returns” part of it!
I don’t understand the frustration of the Mexicans. When I have criticized the loss of American jobs, there are plenty of posters here who maintain that I am a liberal, a democrat; that I am calling for government interference in the free market, that it is okay for jobs to leave the United States, etc., etc. Maybe they should contact the Mexican officials and tell them to chill, to get with the program. These posters probably listen to Mark Levin.
Ha! Yes! Whenever I want crunchy bacon in Spanish, I always ask for it muy crujente.
[For each quality worker you provide us, we will give you give (5) liberals.]
Send them to Mexico to be “economic advisors.”
Hmmm, taking of American jobs? Good.
Taking of Mexican jobs? Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
Hogwash. What goes around comes around.
I don’t want to see Mexico harmed here. I do hope that business on both sides of the border flourish.
Only then can our two societies balance out, and stop the illegal traffic.
Burn baby, burn.
I hear their rico elites taste like gallina.
Quick from factory to grass seed since the election.
Got an idea, get Carlos Slim to build the factory, after he starts 'Empresa de fabricacion de automoviles basure'
They could reform their own economy by doing things like privatizing their energy sector (goodbye PEMEX)- that would be a boom to job creation and provide an economic base for more economic growth in other industries. Political corruption is what holds Mexico’s economy back. They could have their own car companies making cars and providing employment vs. wanting to poach companies from other countries.
Right - there is no excuse. They have plenty of coastline and natural resources which should be allow for economic diversification. It is their own corrupt political organization that holds it back.
You read my mind: along with their felons and average border jumpers we’re sending back, resident Mexicans should compete for trabajo as well with our hungry welfare deadheads frogmarched south.
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