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Trump May Have Won, But Ford Is Still Moving Its Small-Car Production to Mexico
New York Magazine ^ | November 16, 2016 | Charley Lanyon

Posted on 11/16/2016 5:46:17 AM PST by monkapotamus

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To: monkapotamus

Ford GM Chrysler/FIAT

Let’s be honest people, it’s a race to the bottom with a “global worker” wage the norm.

Is this not already a trade war? One that is waged against workers, by globalists, country by country?

Globalism just sucks, in every way.


21 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:07 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: monkapotamus
It's Ford's business decision to make.
Once the economic climate in the US improves, they can make another call.
I believe doing business with another country is the best way to improve conditions there.
Beats giving money, which keeps them dependent forever.

22 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:17 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: monkapotamus

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/money/2015/08/13/news/companies/ford-truck-mexico-ohio/index.html


23 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:26 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: DaveA37
All the cars in my driveway are made in the USA, under Japanese or German management, using non union labor.

Best of both worlds.

24 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:42 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: ConservaTeen
Really? A new Bronco? With probably an EcoBoost drivetrain?

New white Broncos?

25 posted on 11/16/2016 5:55:45 AM PST by OKSooner (Geno's is a tourist trap.)
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To: Salamander
No need to twist your knickers. I don’t like Fords *or* Chevys. Is that okay with you? :)

Thanks for your input to the thread. -30-
26 posted on 11/16/2016 5:56:27 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: ConservaTeen

Exactly, and that was announced many weeks ago. Long before the election. But that doesn’t fit into the anti-Trump agenda.


27 posted on 11/16/2016 5:57:14 AM PST by ASA Vet (There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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To: monkapotamus

Mexico should be making the car mats.


28 posted on 11/16/2016 5:57:35 AM PST by Leep (Winner winner chicken dinner!)
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To: monkapotamus

I wonder if this NY Magazine reporter understands that Trump isn’t actually in office yet and thus, is still just a private citizen with absolutely no power to impact things like this.


29 posted on 11/16/2016 5:58:04 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: BitWielder1
I believe doing business with another country is the best way to improve conditions there. Beats giving money, which keeps them dependent forever.

It is necessary to give other countries money...why?
30 posted on 11/16/2016 5:58:25 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: monkapotamus

The reason for that is, small cars are not profitable. The only way to make them competitive is to use the same labor techniques the rest of the world uses. Those techniques are not possible in the United States because of the UAW work rules. The answer is to move the plant to where they can make a competitive product.

Like it was in the UK, union labor rules are making the US uncompetitive. Notice there are no British owned car makers anymore. Yes they make cars there, but no Brits own the companies. (That’s because the government got involved in bailing out the companies and then ended up selling them because a government can’t even run a whore house at a profit; proven when the IRS took over The Mustang Ranch.)


31 posted on 11/16/2016 5:58:47 AM PST by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: BitWielder1
It's Ford's business decision to make.

Didn't you get the memo?

Businesses need to let President ObamaTrump tell them how to run their companies.

32 posted on 11/16/2016 5:59:00 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: monkapotamus

Not news.

The Ford planning for shifts in production came long before Trump was mentioned as a candidate, and they probably had tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars in it when it became an issue.

Ford’s transfer is really a challenge to fed regulations. Higher-profit and lower mpg vehicles will continue to be made in the US. More government squeezing by emission and mpg regulation would then come directly at the expense of American workers while ‘green’ incentives would go to imports. Ford is playing hardball with the bureaucracy.

Trump’s success with the bureaucracy remains to be seen.


33 posted on 11/16/2016 5:59:02 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: monkapotamus

If this happened in November 2008, the story would be about how horrible it was that Bush policies pushed Ford to move the plant and how Obama was going to change all that when he took office.


34 posted on 11/16/2016 5:59:19 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: monkapotamus

I’ve been driving the same Honda Element - made in Marysville, Ohio - for ten years. It has about 240,000 miles on it, and it looks like it just left the showroom. The engine is getting a little tired, but there’s no smoke, no leaks.

I parked it in 2009. Bought a Chevy HHR SS - made in Mexico. It was a hot rod, and a lot of fun, but the Honda required far less maintenance.

I hope to drive the Element (yeah, it’s ugly) until it reaches 450,000 miles.

Then, I’ll have it crushed into a cube, put a piece of glass on top, and turn it into a coffee table.

Hondas from Ohio; Chevys from Mexico.

What a country...


35 posted on 11/16/2016 6:00:14 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: central_va

Every car Hecho en Mexico should have a 3 foot long mandated sticker in the shape of a sombrero on the front windshield stating so.


When I was shopping for a 2016 vehicle I looked up the v.i.n and found it was made in Mexico ... Dodge Promaster. Google search how to read a “v.i.n.” Number.


36 posted on 11/16/2016 6:00:32 AM PST by nightmarewhileawake
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To: central_va

Some of it is passed on, as you can see in any Walmart aisle. But the main motive of the globalist is of course increased profits.


37 posted on 11/16/2016 6:00:44 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: Resettozero

“Toyota does, Mr. Fields.

So does Subaru.

And BMW.

What’s wrong with your management, Mr. Fields?”

Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan and Mazda all make small cars in the US. The difference ——— they have plants in right to work states and no UAW. In deed, when I bought the Mazda I checked to be sure. Ford needs to move its production to a non union state and cut ties with the UAW.


38 posted on 11/16/2016 6:01:12 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: monkapotamus

Good let Ford be the first to get its ass kicked by the 35% tax.


39 posted on 11/16/2016 6:01:18 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: monkapotamus

Well Ford is safe for now, Zero is still in office.


40 posted on 11/16/2016 6:01:38 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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