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Ford Cancelling Mexico Plant, Invest $700 million in MI expansion instead
CNBC ^ | 1/3/2017 | CNBC

Posted on 01/03/2017 8:05:42 AM PST by rb22982

Ford canceling plans for $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, investing $700 million in Michigan expansion instead


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Front Page News; Mexico; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: automakers; automotive; autumotive; economy; ford; fordmotor; fordmotorco; manufacturing; michigan; morewinning; trump; trumpjobs; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain; winning
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To: rb22982

trump wins again


201 posted on 01/03/2017 1:47:14 PM PST by andrewsj
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To: 12th_Monkey
but will the union back Trump for creating jobs for them?

Lets see, Trump has not even been sworn in, yet companies have decided to keep billions in company assets and thousands of jobs in the U.S., but your now concerned if the unions will like Trump? You should apply at CNN.

Gezzuz..

202 posted on 01/03/2017 2:46:57 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: txhurl
Michigan is now Red...

Next can we please return to referring to the CommiecRATs as the "Reds."

203 posted on 01/03/2017 3:40:41 PM PST by ASA Vet (Democrats haven't been this upset since the Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: CodeToad
If Trump can undo EPA rules, the USA would be the plastics king!<> Low energy.

costs is the driver

Trump also needs to free up the big deposits of low sulfur coal in Utah that the Toon locked up

Cheap electricity drives manufacturing and petrochemicals.

204 posted on 01/03/2017 4:35:55 PM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: Alberta's Child
If Ford can save $1,425 in labor costs for each Focus they produce in Mexico, then why are they canceling the plan to open the plant in Mexico?

Ford learned their robots don't have a press 2 for Mexican button?

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/31/ford-uses-co-bots-and-factory-workers-at-its-cologne-fiesta-plant.html

205 posted on 01/03/2017 4:47:01 PM PST by MurrietaMadman
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To: rb22982

This will make a lot of liberals buy GM. Which is funny in a way


206 posted on 01/03/2017 4:48:01 PM PST by redgolum
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To: HombreSecreto

To borrow a line from an old Ferlin Husky performance of “Country Music’s Here To Stay”,
I can’t get enough of that wonderful stuff
I don’t care what people say


207 posted on 01/03/2017 5:55:25 PM PST by RipSawyer (At the end of the day...the sun goes down.)
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To: Alberta's Child
And the "sell" part of this is the most difficult part of their business, because a compact car produced by Ford in the U.S. would be priced at a level that would effectively chase its potential buyers to a mid-sized car
This is one factor that killed the Corvair, besides Ralph Nader's long since discredited propaganda. They were good cars, but at the time the Chevy Nova was slightly more $$$, but a little bigger and more "conventional".
208 posted on 01/03/2017 7:09:59 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: rb22982

MORE WINNING MR. TRUMP!!!


209 posted on 01/03/2017 8:13:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Impala64ssa

Marxists have been at war with the automobile for 50 yrs. They may have met their match.


210 posted on 01/03/2017 10:13:00 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray

Yup, marxists believe that cars are nothing more than major appliances, better yet they demand we give them up for mass transit, under the false pretense of saving the planet. They cannot tolerate anyone having “fun, fun, fun” and the leftists act as the “daddies” who would take our cars away if given the chance. (Cash for clunkers, for example)


211 posted on 01/03/2017 11:27:50 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Alberta's Child

BTTT


212 posted on 01/04/2017 3:11:58 AM PST by indcons (Ajrawat & Aulakh lie, grannies die!)
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To: dowcaet
---Just waiting for the media’s predictable narrative of “they were going to make this move anyway” to deny any credit to be given to Trump. The next four years the leftist meltdown will be great entertainment.--- It looks like you nailed that one . . . this is a response that I got on a liberal site I frequent. "<> Excellent question! I'll answer it. You see tiggs, what you just said there ... it's false. Totally false, and totally invented by a lump in your brain stem. Businesses have been making these decisions for a couple of years now, as the economy has steadily improved. The fact of the matter is, you just haven't been paying any attention, for two reasons: 1) You actually don't care about these decisions, and only pretend to care when it suits your narrative and 2) You ignore any of these instances you DO happen to read about, because you know you will go blind and s**t down your leg if it crosses your mind for even a millisecond that a success anywhere on the planet could be tied to the Kenyan Muslim. Any questions?"
213 posted on 01/04/2017 6:20:01 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: poconopundit

>>>Wouldn’t be surprised if Michigan stays on the Republican side for many years go come if this good news continues.<<<

As LBJ once said under a different context and used an N word as opposed to the M word:

“We’ll have those Michiganders voting Republican for the next 200 years!”


214 posted on 01/04/2017 6:28:37 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Celerity

New facilities versus upgrading existing facilities.


215 posted on 01/04/2017 12:32:45 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Not seeing my point still: If it was ALWAYS cheaper to expand in the US, and twice the cost to move to MX - Why do it in the first place ?

I know why - or at least I think I do. It’s some kind of labor agreement with the Mexican government. I don’t think it is that far from a word called “Slavery”


216 posted on 01/04/2017 2:38:07 PM PST by Celerity
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To: dragnet2

rhetorical question my good sir, maybe I should have did the /s for the impaired....geeze.


217 posted on 01/05/2017 10:51:59 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (MAGA starting 1/20/2017)
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To: dragnet2

rhetorical question my good sir, maybe I should have did the /s for the impaired....geeze.


218 posted on 01/05/2017 10:52:02 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (MAGA starting 1/20/2017)
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To: rb22982; All
Does anyone here get who really is in the hot seat in regards too this?

Debbie Stabenow, she is up in 2018....

So...

Does she go against a Tax Package? Trimming back the EPA? Killing and Replacing Obamacare? And all of the other pro-business initiatives that DJT will propose as legislation.

They are all needed IMHO to make this a go for Ford. And I don't believe Mark Fields for a second their wasn't a deal... I have no inside knowledge, but the Fund Raiser in Downtown Detroit the night of the DJT Novi Rallye, well, we still don't know who was in attendance...

219 posted on 01/05/2017 10:57:39 AM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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