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Trump In Michigan: I Will Not Allow Ford To Move To Mexico
http://www.newsmax.com ^ | 8/12/2015 | Newsmax

Posted on 08/12/2015 7:48:19 AM PDT by conservativejoy

Edited on 08/13/2015 12:27:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Republican front-runner Donald Trump came to the home state of the auto industry and attacked Ford Motor Co. for building factories in Mexico. And the Michigan faithful in attendance sided with the bombastic mogul.

"Ford is building a $2.5 billion plant in Mexico," he roared to a packed auditorium in Birch Run, Michigan, and 2,000 voices responded with lusty boos. "I

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To: conservativejoy

The only way the Donald could be right on this is if he sweetens the incentives for Ford to stay. Getting rid of those filthy unions would be nice.


41 posted on 08/12/2015 8:21:21 AM PDT by LouAvul (Ted Cruz and the presidency goes together like a gun and bullets. Nothing else works.)
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To: RKBA Democrat
oh why would DT do such a “crazy” thing?

Not a Donald Trump supporter. However, he does these "crazy" things because he is running as a populist, not a conservative.

In marketing, you find a hungry crowd and feed it. Trump is adept at identifying hungry crowds and tossing red meat.

42 posted on 08/12/2015 8:21:50 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: CA Conservative

Well however it needs to be done, it needs to be done.

Our bilateral trade deficit now with China is 342 billion dollars last year, a new all-time record, in a long line of brand new all-time records. Up from 308 billion the year before, and it’s heading even higher right now for this year.

Nobody is doing a single thing, yet we pile up ever more debt (we’re now near 19 trillion dollars)

Only Trump is saying this needs to stop.

Bring back manufacturing to America.


43 posted on 08/12/2015 8:23:49 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: taildragger

Reagan didn’t win the Reagan democrats by pandering to them.

Santorum did very well with union members here in Michigan by talking about eliminating the insane taxes imposed on manufacturing. My union neighbor pointed out that it was something that every experienced factory worker understands.


44 posted on 08/12/2015 8:24:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: conservativejoy

ignoramus

Maybe he should fix the reasons why these companies move instead of pounding his chest making stupid statements.


45 posted on 08/12/2015 8:25:42 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: over3Owithabrain

It’s an obvious bluff which Ford would be forced to call as their duty to their shareholders.

Alternatively, if it’s not a bluff, then it concedes a level of power over a private company’s business decisions which no supporter of free markets would want any politician to have.

Given that there is a method to deal with this very problem that supports free markets (removal of government economic incentives to export the manufacturing base), Trump here is making an anti-conservative proposal and would move things in the wrong direction. Politicization of the economy is how we got here in the first place.


46 posted on 08/12/2015 8:25:50 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: GSWarrior

He might.


47 posted on 08/12/2015 8:26:22 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: thackney

Then they’ll PAY. It’s like the old Fram filter commercial. “Pay me now, or pay me later.”

The free ride for these corner cutting outfits should have been over long ago. I pray that it soon will be.....and my wife and I both drive Fords.


48 posted on 08/12/2015 8:27:05 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: over3Owithabrain

We don’t need government making special deals with corporations. They need to change policies that benefit those doing business inside the US.

Trump does it wrong.


49 posted on 08/12/2015 8:27:25 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: over3Owithabrain

“”Good God people Trump is a businessman””

Trump is a crony capitalist through and through.

In 2009 he was praising Obama for saving the economy and calling names to those opposing the bailouts.


50 posted on 08/12/2015 8:28:29 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Unions in their most basic form are the exercise of freedom of association; it’s only the legal privileges further extended to them which make them anti-freedom. (Government worker unions are a totally different story and arguably constitute a form of sedition.)

Trump’s proposal here addresses neither, however. If he proposed those measures this would be a different conversation.


51 posted on 08/12/2015 8:29:19 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: PGR88

Oh, no, no. They can build where they like. But the free ride is over.


52 posted on 08/12/2015 8:29:27 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: GeronL

how do you know that isn’t what trump has in mind here... to pull the government back from unfriendly policies that are driving businesses out of the land.


53 posted on 08/12/2015 8:29:44 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: GeronL

Yeah right Trump won’t push for policy change to help Us jobs. Please.


54 posted on 08/12/2015 8:29:53 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: GeronL

And then the school of hard knocks taught him that was wrong....


55 posted on 08/12/2015 8:30:37 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: LS
Trump will absolutely tear off a significant portion of Dem voters with this kind of talk.

We'll sure, he's talking like a left wing pro-union Democrat, of course he will buy off some of their votes using liberal rhetoric.

He could buy off even more of those Dem voters if he resurrected his massive wealth tax, or changed his mind again and wanted single payer health care, etc.

If Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton said they would "not allow" Ford to move to Mexico, most conservatives would be outraged. They don't have the right to tell Ford where they can build their plants. And neither can they just impose a huge tariff on their own the way some people here seem to think they can (we have congressionally approved trade agreements with these countries that can't just be torn up over night).

This is just another example proving that Trump is not a conservative. I begin to wonder if his supporters, even here on a supposedly conservative website, are actually conservative or if they'd be better labeled as nationalists first with actual conservatism taking a minor role in the back seat.

56 posted on 08/12/2015 8:32:21 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Trump loves bailouts and TARP so much


57 posted on 08/12/2015 8:32:27 AM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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To: Nep Nep

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Uh geez, Reagan, ever hear of national sovereignty? A conservative would talk about bilateral talks and...” /s

Seriously it’s a statement of support to keep an important industry in America. Said in Michigan. Not a promise to physically restrain Ford.


58 posted on 08/12/2015 8:33:25 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: GeronL

Till they disappoint


59 posted on 08/12/2015 8:34:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: conservativejoy

Trump will rival Obama in his ability to “do whats right for America”
They are both cut from the same cloth


60 posted on 08/12/2015 8:34:25 AM PDT by woofie
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