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Ford chairman met with Trump over 'infuriating' Mexico comments
Reuters ^ | October 5, 2016 | David Shepardson

Posted on 10/05/2016 12:36:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ford Motor Co (F.N) Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said on Wednesday he has met with Donald Trump to talk about the Republican presidential candidate's extensive criticism of the automaker's investments in Mexico.

Ford told the Economic Club of Washington that he thought Trump's criticism of the No. 2 automaker's foreign investments were "infuriating and "frustrating" because of the company's extensive investments and employment in the United States. Trump has threatened if elected to impose hefty tariffs on Ford imports from Mexico.

Ford told reporters after the event that the session with Trump was a "great meeting" that took place a few months ago....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: automakers; ford; fordmotor; manufacturing; mexico; offshoring; outsourcing; trump
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Would he have done this if he thought Don Trump had no chance at winning the White House?
1 posted on 10/05/2016 12:36:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Ford, bite me, your cars suck.


2 posted on 10/05/2016 12:39:09 PM PDT by AU72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Meeting couple months ago?


3 posted on 10/05/2016 12:40:33 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you Leary is this)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is hammering Ford right now in his NV speech.


4 posted on 10/05/2016 12:41:07 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: AU72

The GT350 is very nice. Drive one.


5 posted on 10/05/2016 12:42:04 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Incuriating how, exactly?

Infuriatingly true?


6 posted on 10/05/2016 12:44:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...because of the company’s extensive investments and employment in the United States.”

You’re AN AMERICAN COMPANY, numbskull!


7 posted on 10/05/2016 12:44:39 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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2ndDivisionVet:"the No. 2 automaker's foreign investments were "infuriating and "frustrating" because of the company's extensive investments and employment in the United States."

Have Ford contact Kodak about doing business in Mexico
The Mexicans can't even follow directions, even in Spanish.
Kodak had to open each blister pack of cameras because the Mexicans put the camera batteries in backwards, and didn't work until changed and reversed by the U.S. workers.
Can you imagine a Ford vehicle that works like a "Yugo" ?

8 posted on 10/05/2016 12:45:27 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ("Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.”- Colin Powell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The new president, trumpsplaining how it’s gonna be...


9 posted on 10/05/2016 12:48:27 PM PDT by kiryandil (George H. W. Bush: "Read my lips. I'm a Republican.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, Bill, your aluminum truck bed sucks. Fix your own problems with your quarterly sales numbers down 8%. Trump really doesn’t need your unsolicited advice as you trot down to Mexico to make your sub-par cars.


10 posted on 10/05/2016 12:49:30 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: AU72

I have a 2015 Fusion. It has 33000 miles. It already rattles more than my manager’s 15 year old Honda Accord with 325,000 miles.


11 posted on 10/05/2016 12:49:53 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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Nope


12 posted on 10/05/2016 12:50:59 PM PDT by ColdOne ((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Hillary Clinton.....will stick a shiv into our freedom!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And Bill, your football team sucks.


13 posted on 10/05/2016 12:51:08 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have no problem with Ford CEO meeting with Trump since Ford is into manufacturing and can explain exactly why regulations, taxes and unions are forcing all manufacturing out of the US. Maybe talking to Trump about what needs to be changed so these businesses can stay is a smart move!


14 posted on 10/05/2016 12:51:26 PM PDT by Lady Heron
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Why is Trump hammering Ford?
You know, the company that DIDN’T take huge sums of taxpayer money for a bailout and screw their investors in favor of the Unions?


15 posted on 10/05/2016 12:52:21 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: castlegreyskull
Used to drive Taurus's and had a Windstar.

No have a Toyota, Nissan and Subaru, I've had no problems in 3 years other than new tires.

16 posted on 10/05/2016 12:56:17 PM PDT by AU72
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

One of our neighbors is in home construction business. Went to work one Monday and his boss told him he had a brand new crew to supervise - they were all Mexican, spoke very little English and reading skills in any language were zero. He walked off the job. Said one of the drywall guys, who is an American, told him the new crew installed all the windows upside down and backwards because they couldn’t read or understand the directions.

High cost of cheap labor.


17 posted on 10/05/2016 12:57:27 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: AU72
Hey Ford, bite me, your cars suck.

Not any that I have and do own.

18 posted on 10/05/2016 1:01:14 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Mr. Bill, learn to kiss the new boss’ butt if you know what’s good for you.

The Fed will be audited and when it is, we will know how those $2,500,000,000 USD of digitally created dollars were originated and transferred to Citibank, then to Banamex in Mexico City (which is Citibank) where it was loaned at zero interest on behalf of your sad company to build a plant in Veracruz after being used to buy $1,000,000,000 USD in Mexican government bonds as a payoff to corrupt officials in Mexico.

It’s part of the globalist plan to make America poor like everyone else while elevating Los Mexicanos so that your sad company can extract enormous profits on cheap labor without ever having spent a dime of your company’s own money.

Oh, and have a good time expanding into Mexico on Fed created nothingness. But you will pay through the nose back here stateside as well as anywhere else you try to market Mexican build Ford vehicles. You will understand what it means to be an international pariah everywhere you go because Americans still hold sway over international trade agreements. So I repeat, you better get up to speed on being a butt kisser of all Americans represented by Donald J. Trump and you better do it fast.


19 posted on 10/05/2016 1:01:28 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V):)
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You’re AN AMERICAN COMPANY, numbskull!

Hitler's armies moved in Ford trucks. (The German owned truck plants were bombed flat by the Americans, but the Ford plant kept churning them out until the First Army reached the Rhine in March, 1945. Production then halted for a couple of months, resuming in May, 1945.) Ford also supplied key components for the V-2 rockets.

20 posted on 10/05/2016 1:01:28 PM PDT by PAR35
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