To: vertolet
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.
2 posted on
04/17/2006 12:23:32 AM PDT by
Thunder90
To: lizol; Lukasz; strategofr; GSlob; spanalot; Thunder90; Tailgunner Joe; propertius; REactor; ...
Ping. Another mistake by a US company.
3 posted on
04/17/2006 12:24:02 AM PDT by
Thunder90
To: Thunder90
I'm guessing that you're not real familiar with the Stratus.
Hint: This isn't a plus for Russia, believe it or not.
4 posted on
04/17/2006 12:30:03 AM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Thunder90
Good. Get the heck out of Michigan and stick it to the corrupt unions and that commie Governor Granholm.
To: Thunder90
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?
7 posted on
04/17/2006 12:33:36 AM PDT by
Iris7
(Dare to be pigheaded! Stubborn! "Tolerance" is not a virtue!)
To: Thunder90; Travis McGee; AdamSelene235; wardaddy; SAJ; MadIvan
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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.
15 posted on
04/17/2006 1:09:35 AM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Thunder90
"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.
28 posted on
04/17/2006 3:02:03 AM PDT by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia)
To: Thunder90
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.
41 posted on
04/17/2006 4:37:46 AM PDT by
Wolfie
To: Thunder90
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.
61 posted on
04/17/2006 8:53:28 AM PDT by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: 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."
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.
66 posted on
04/17/2006 9:28:07 AM PDT by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: 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. 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
70 posted on
04/17/2006 9:43:46 AM PDT by
Centurion2000
(Every man must be tempted, sometimes,to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.)
To: Thunder90
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.
118 posted on
04/17/2006 3:07:20 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Amor de mi Vida, Donde Estas?)
To: Thunder90
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.
126 posted on
04/18/2006 6:32:29 AM PDT by
SQUID
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