Posted on 05/12/2011 2:49:22 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
...Porsche plans to consolidate several of its U.S. operations at a new $100 million complex in Atlanta...
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The kind of transportation improvements being made are the kind of things that are always being done by state transportation agencies to encourage business in an area.
Unfortunately, cars remotely similar to Porsches have not been made in America since the time of the Deusenberg. And the proposed facility is not a factory anyway.
I am as full of frustration as anyone about our economy and our job situation.
I experience the misery everyday in both my professional life and my personal life.
But I am not sure I understand where you are coming from.
Porsche is NOT going to be building any cars in Atlanta.
It is a tech center; should Americans not work there, either?
Should my grocery store not sell imported beer?
Should my wife not buy imported chocolate?
Where do we go with this train of thought?
There are plenty of people who need a job right now, and I don’t care who it is that might want to hire them.
As far as tax money provided for tax breaks and infrastructure improvements, this is certainly nothing new, hell, it goes on all the time for American companies all the way down to housing subdivisions. Not that that makes it “right” but it is “business as usual” for state and local governments to compete against one another for industrial investments by which one of them offers the greatest incentives.
Remember, Kia recently opened an assembly plant in West Point, GA. That community and surrounding environs are now booming...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-24-boomtown_N.htm
That place is freaking HUGE, have you seen it?
DOT built them their own exit off of I-85.
Because otherwise, Atlanta would be sitting with a big black hole left from Ford instead of making a long term profit off of them. I love you folks who want to throw out all the foreigners. Do you shop at Walmart? Maybe you grow your own cotton at home for shirts. Personally I want the freedom to buy the best product for the least money. Right now it is the Toyotas, Hondas, et al that are doing that.
Then how do you stop the public demand for the automobiles manufactured here in the U.S. by the foreign companies?
And second of all, how do you propose to eliminate the UAW?
And since there will always be a demand for the foreign imports regardless of the tariffs you are predictably going to suggest, how many plants do you think will be built by GM, et al, that will provide the jobs that will be lost if you boot the foreigners out of this country?
There is no way in hell that Government Motors or Chrysler can fulfill the demand for the products that the imports are providing.......
Plus those freepers will buy Japanese rather over a union made American automobile due to an insane hatred for unions
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I’m one of those Freepers. It just doesn’t get any better than a Range Rover. When unions stop making American cars then I’ll consider one. Those bastards are the ones that put Halfrican, Marxist, Muslim, ghetto bi-sexuals in the White House. They can suck it and keep their shi##y cars that break all the time and fall apart in 2 years.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
...and once you eliminate the competition, what happens to the prices of the domestic autos?
This!!
Yeah, that Kia plant is a nice looking operation, just looking at it driving by on the highway.
Looks to me like you fancy yourself a mini-king of America and expect your fellow Americans to kiss your ass by making automobiles for you at Mexican peon wages. They should be beggars while you should be king or at least an aristocrat
And if they won’t submit to your imperiousness..... well then you’ll just buy Japanese or German or Chinese or Indian or Kenyan. With you in charge we would have lost WW2.
Are you for real. What we need in America is to get Americans working for American corporations with American capitalists (and shareholders) reaping those those profits and dividends. Not the Japanese or Chinese or Germans
I understand the NLRB has decided to sue Porsche because they are expanding in a non-union state, Georgia, and forsaking the union-required states. /s
Is the NLRB suing Porsche?
“Capitalism is about making profits and who makes those profits. “
Well you forgot about the part about it creates wealth for many people including those with jobs.
No Porsche, no Porsche jobs.
If plants are in America, it is Americans doing the work and earning the wages. Americans are also spending their hard earned wages in the US. Many, if not most of the components come from US companies. The steel comes from US steel mills. Further, the plant owners are paying lots of taxes.
Why did BMW, Kia, and Mercedes come to the US to build cars? Because the US has highly skilled and educated labor. It is also a lot cheaper to build in the US for the US market. Additionally, IIRC, the US is THE country where ALL of their SUVs are built and then exported (forget the company).
Folks who aren’t buying Big3 are showing them tough love. If you build substandard products, tough, we aren’t buying them. Fortunately, the Big3 have been doing a lot to get their act together and many new models are looking good.
Looks to me you fancy yourself mini king of America expecting your subjects to buy American cars when they are a far inferior product to Foreign made cars.. but cost around the same money. Sounds to me you are the one basing your opinion on the union...Mexican peon wages? $25 hr in Lincoln Alabama is pee on wages?? And just think...those American workers making peon wages are building a much more quality car than the more highly paid Union workers. Hmmm. Sorry..the very position you take here goes against everything America stands for...that we should buy American cars to support union workers regardless if that car is the best to buy or not. The American car companies cannot compete with Foreign car companies building cars on their own soil because they are hostage to the union. Why haven't American car companies built more plants in right to work states? Foreign companies have benefitted from this. Why are Foreign car companies thriving and expanding while 2 of the 3 American companies not only had to run to Uncle Sugar for help. I hate it. I'm a bowtie guy from wayback and it kills me what has happened to the American car companies. It's their own fault and they deserve everything they've got. There's no excuse. The foreign car companies are doing just fine building cars here in America, why can't the American companies do the same? Actually I think you got it backwards Dennis. THere's nothing American about buying a lesser vehicle just because it's an American owned company. Think about it. If you allow foreign companies to come onto your soil and dominate you in your own backyard...you deserve nothing more than to die and be relegated to the ashheap of fat, bloated, businesses that couldn't compete.
If HereInTheHeartland owns an American automobile company (you own stock) then all you care about are the profits (not the workers) and given your short term attitude you want profits (dividends) and rising stocks price ASAP
Well you forgot about the part about it creates wealth for many people including those with jobs.
No Porsche, no Porsche jobs.
Incorrect. With no Porsches Americans will buy American cars made by Americans in factories owned by Americans. Unless you plan to ride your tricycle
That is a long erudite post but in the end means nothing. If you want to save America (I seem to remember you live in Nippon?) with our huge debt and trade deficits then you want to buy from American owned factories on US soil. Logic says you don’t want to leak out profits to foreigners. This means you tell Porsche, Nissan, Toyota, Honda to scram. They can sell or destroy their US factories who cares
So in my ideal world (without free traitors) the only factories making automobiles here are American owned. Buy from them or ride a golf cart. You see your consumer choice as paramount while I rate American ownership and American jobs higher
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