Posted on 08/22/2015 11:19:47 AM PDT by xzins
Presidential candidate Donald Trump hosted an event last night in Alabama that saw between 18,000 and 20,000-plus people in attendance.
Roll tide, apparently.
During his speech, “the Donald” mentioned how he is a big fan of Oreo cookies, but will refuse to ever eat them again since Nabisco plans on moving to Mexico.
From The Blaze:
“You know, Mexico is the new China,” Trump told the crowd, referencing the recent decision by Nabisco to move its factories there.
“I love Oreos. I’ll never eat them again. Okay? I’ll never eat them again,” Trump said. “No, Nabisco closes the plant, they just announced a couple of days ago, in Chicago and they are moving the plant to Mexico. Now, why?”
“I don’t blame China. I respect them,” Trump said. “I’m not angry at them. I’m angry at our leaders for being so stupid. I’m not angry at China.”
Oreos — more specifically, Nabisco — caused the ire of the billionaire presidential contender after the company announced its decision not to invest the $130 million for a factory upgrade and will move production across the county’s southern border into Mexico. Nabisco also recently shut down its Philadelphia factory in an effort to expand factories in Virginia and New Jersey, although union members believe their jobs will eventually be outsourced to Mexico as well.
You know things are bad when American workers fear losing their jobs to outsourcing in order for the company to employ cheap laborers.
He’s not wrong about China. What the communist nation is doing is capitalizing on the weakness of current American leaders. They’re taking advantage of a flaw in our highly liberal system that disincentivizes making money.
What would be great about a Trump presidency is that he will not kowtow to any foreign land, and will always put the American people first. There won’t be an Obama-like Middle East apology tour under Trump, that’s for certain.
I’m sure my household eats 10 packages of OREOs per year. No mas... no more... says this flea to Nabisco’s elephant.
Ole!
I'll never eat them again even though I somewhat like 'em....but I'll bet las cucarachas in the factories south of the border like 'em, too.
Ugh!
Leni
The price of sugar is not why auto plants and parts plants and every sort of plant anyone can name went to Mexico. Cheap labor is what lures most plants from the US, and it's a major factor for candy and other producers that uses sugar, also.
Health care trashed, muzzie vermin, illegals invading, economy tanked, market crash, now Oreos go Mexican? Definitely end times. Guess I bought my last package of Vanilla Oreos. Sigh.
you are correct. they were clueless with backs to the wall and no economy at all, no alternatives and a nation to build.
your comparison indicates profound ignorance with the world is today
anti business and anticapitalist rhetoric is not becoming to a conservative...... unless he is Pat Buchanan and he doesn’t count
That being said, if I owned the company, I'd do exactly the same thing. These people aren't in business because they want to donate their time and cookies. he answer is to make American labor attractive again. The answer is lowering corporate taxes on US manufacturers and raising it for those who import goods for sale in our markets. The day it costs the same to manufacture in the US as it does in Canada or Mexico is the day manufacturers will stop dealing with the extra hassles of cross border games.
Nor will I.
Thank you Mr. Trump for that enlightening piece of information.
I am pro American business and pro American capital. You take gloBULLism and cram it.
I'm a free market, conservative American. I'm middle class and from a middle class working family. But I believe that all these big corporate names have their hands out. If not in sugar, then in something else.
Scratch beneath the surface, and you'll come up with a nice government kickback in one area or another.
They have outsourced all of the cleaning services already.
Our manufacturing is on the verge of collapse
Now this.
We will be a consumer nation but the only problem is that we will only have the goods to consume that BIG Government gives us.
Why? Because there will be no means to earn them.
Welcome to the Government Utopia and do not blame it on the Democrats.....!!!!!
It actually has to do with “sugar regulations” in the manufacturing process...according to Nabisco/Mondolez..oh, read up on Mondolez...they own almost all of the baking companies...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-nabisco-mondelez-plant-0730-biz-20150729-story.html
Of course the unions claim that that was it was Mondelez’s plan all along to shift some of its production to Mexico, however the union also admitted that they never submitted a proposal to keep the jobs in Chicago.
"The only reason they made an appeal to Chicago is so that they can try to get $46 million in concessions back from Chicago," said Ed Burpo, president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 300, which represents about 1,000 workers at the plant and did not submit a proposal. "The company had already made the decision where those lines were going."
Trump on unions:
Some of it went massive advertising such as the Nike deals with star athletes. There was a story ten or fifteen years ago about how Nike was paying Michael Jordan and a few other star athletes more than they were paying 30,000 workers in Asia.
The greatest (animated) ad ever !! Turn up the speakers……..
OREO Wonderfilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFsZ6BO4LU0
The greatest (animated) ad ever !! Turn up the speakers……..
OREO Wonderfilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFsZ6BO4LU0
What if the sugar people are in cahoots with the Mondalez group? Keep sugar high in the US to ship US jobs and plants to Mexico. All along, the sugar people are guaranteed a minimum of international market price on sugar.
Nike has been working to onshore production for several years now, so I’m not going to be too hard on them. Not sure whether the ongoing dollar strength has damaged that effort, but they have been attempting to source domestically and reverse the tide. Credit where credit is due, Walmart too for that matter.
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