"A subsidy pays to keep jobs. An incentive pays to bring them. If you're paying to keep them, it means somebody wants to leave."I wish more people would understand.
This is about real people making logical decisions to guarantee their own employment and success. And, leading decent lives in a good place, to boot. This should be required reading for all the out-of-touch politicians in Washington.
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I was looking at a GM car, but now definitely not. That company is already a quasi-Gov’t agency with the UAW in control. I feel now it’s like buying a car from the HUD or the Dept. of the Interior
Let them declare bankruptcy, reorganize, renegotiate their contracts, and start over with an eye to being competitive. Oh, and Washington: IT'S MY FRIGGIN' MONEY, NOT YOURS. NO BAILOUTS!
I wonder this while wondering for yet another year how long our fearless leaders, who couldn't sell spring water to a man dying of thirs, will continue telling dying auto makers how to do their jobs.
Paging Arnie "RINO" Schwarzenegger! Does your steroid laden brain register anything with the above? Hint: the south is mostly red states!
Jobs are not automatic today. They are a commodity that an area needs to purchase. People are finally realizing you need to pay someone to supply jobs for your people.
And then there’s this:
“We don’t have a culture that values union organizing,” says Haley Barbour, the Republican governor of Mississippi who persuaded Toyota to locate a Prius plant in Blue Springs in northern Mississippi. “Our workers like overtime and pay for performance. They feel like they get a better deal without the union.”
UAW Death Ping! Good article!
Doc Hollywood!
Some of this is on principle - I refuse to further the mockery unions have made of labor.
The other part is just price, quality and warranty. KIA and Toyota have been great on all three.
Until the “Little 3” change dramatically, I won't be purchasing another vehicle from them...never.
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My family hails from a small township near West Point called Valley, AL. Great little town. In fact, I was just there a few days ago looking for a Continuing Care Retirement Facility for my recently widowed mother. That whole area is abuzz about the new Kia factory, ever since the West Point Pepperill textile company folded there.
GM builds Corvettes in KY, so there may be hope that the American makers can escape the UAW's clutches if the execs ever wise up and get their plants out of union controlled states like MI, OH, IN, CA, etc. If they get the $25 billion they want from Congress they should spend it on building new plants in right to work states.
With the UAW spending heavily to elect DemocRATs my 3 Fords are giving way to Toyotas. Bye-bye Detroit.
I remember when Americans started buying Japanese cars in quantity. I bought American. I never made an issue of it; people can do as they choose. I simply chose to buy American.
Import quotas were passed by Government. Surely this had the support of the American auto companies and the UAW. Import quotas reduce the freedom of Americans to buy as they choose. What had been a personal choice by me, to buy American, was cheapened as it became a collective choice forced upon all of us.
Now the Big Three and the UAW want my money regardless of whether or not I buy their product. If they can’t earn it; they’ll just take it. Enough is enough.
I made up my mind never again to buy from the Big Three or the UAW, even before reading this article. I was ready to buy Kia because the Koreans don’t limit my freedom or steal from me. Koreans make money the old fashioned way; they earn it. If Kias are made in the South, by non-union workers, that’s even better.
West point is a corrupt little town spent many summers on West Point lake. They were probably glad people lost jobs and had to move.
Things aren't always as they appear.
The Dems want to force unions on these jobs. They are making the entire Country Detroit.
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