[Thunder90]

GM is the next set of cooperate idiots to sell this country down the river. We should NOT be putting production plants into countries that represent near term threats, and Russia certainly qualifies.

[Thunder90]

Ping. Another mistake by a US company.

[Spktyr]

I'm guessing that you're not real familiar with the Stratus.

Hint: This isn't a plus for Russia, believe it or not.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Good. Get the heck out of Michigan and stick it to the corrupt unions and that commie Governor Granholm.

[Iris7]

Corporations that sell their stock to the public are required by law to put the shareholder's interests first. This means corporations must maximize profits. Exxon NOT going for every cent possible is illegal. Diamler-Chrysler is in the same boat.

If this is bothersome to you (it is to me), should then the folks in Exxon do what is illegal? Especially when they will be out of there like a rocket?

Does not the fault lie with the laws involved? Doesn't it?

[Southack]

Russian wages are less than China's wages.

The average Russian wage is $303 per month. The average Ukranian makes only $165 per month. http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/87/347/15919_salary.html

The Chinese urban worker earned $0.95 per hour in 2002, $1.07 per hour in 2003, and $1.22 per hour in 2004 (http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20060407-fri.html)...and was likely up to $1.54 by this year.

For the 2640 hour average Chinese workyear (10 hours per day, 22 days per month, 12 months per year), that's $4,065.60 per year....$338.80 per month.

[AlexW]

"GM is the next set of cooperate idiots to sell this country down the river."

I think you should take your complaints to the UAW.
They are the ones that destroy the auto industry in the US.

[Wolfie]

Eh. As long as we're selling out to the Chinese, who actually could kick our asses all over the map, I don't think worrying about the Russians is of much use.

[ZULU]

Well, the U.S. should put a tariff on thier product aht is so high that no one in the country will want to buy one.

TYhat's the ONLY way to deal with these pirates who steal American jobs and American money and pour it into places like Russia and China.

[Marine_Uncle]

"GM is the next set of cooperate idiots to sell this country down the river. We should NOT be putting production plants into countries that represent near term threats, and Russia certainly qualifies."
You commented to me on a last years thread that the CFR does not have a military, but that Russia and China do.
Perhaps you can envision why the CFR and the one world groups that in essence at different levels of allegiance to the one world cause, do not need a army to effect the gross changes they have sought for a long long time.

[Centurion2000]

GM is the next set of cooperate idiots to sell this country down the river. We should NOT be putting production plants into countries that represent near term threats, and Russia certainly qualifies.

They didn't. GAZ bought an entire factory of slightly older equipment and they are exporting it back in order to make Russian versions of the Stratus.

GAZ Buys Chrylser Technology

[Clemenza]

1. German company.

2. Ford and GM have the worst management in corporate America, and the most inefficient line workers outside of the public sector.

F-ck "smokestack America." Maybe if the morons in the auto industry would look at a successful company like Boeing, which has downsized its once bloated labor force considerably, and has been practicing strategic outsourcing (as opposed to the knee jerk kind) since the late 1940s, maybe they wouldn't be in the toilet.

Makes me proud to drive a Hyundai Sonata, soon to be built in the US of A.

[SQUID]

Hey folks!
When have most corporations ever had the county's interest in mind? Most corporations do not care about patriotism, that's our job. WalMart started out that way, but quickly saw China offered a more profitable opportunity.

I mean, I am not anti business, but when capitalism is in motion people get upset. These people are only interested in profit and that's what they're in business for. End of story.

People need to look at labor just like any other commodity. Labor is a major part of production cost. So, when they see an opportunity to increase their margin they do it because a corporation can never have too much profit; Exxon. Also, if Exxon can cut their production cost by 50% do you really think you will get a 50% break at the pump?

This is the price of freedom. The market should take it's course.

Opening up the world to free trade is a risk. We've wanted free trade for decades and now we don't like what it is doing to us so we will use government to protect us? Wrong. Either you want free trade or you don't. Capitalism.