[House Atreides]

This is a BETRAYAL as far as I’m concerned! Ford is free to make this type of decision as we are free to no longer choose to buy Ford products.

[central_va]

Tip of the iceberg for auto manufacturing. How many more industries do we need to lose? Some of the US manufacturing industries lost to globalization:

1. Consumer electronics(TVs cell phones PCs etc.)
2. Textiles
3. Furniture
4. Steel
5. Shipbuilding
6. Tires(still a few domestic manufactures left; Cooper?)

This is just a short list.

11 "American" Industries That Are Dominated By Immigrants And Offshoring

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Exporting to the U.S. From a foreign plant after closing down a good plant in the U.S. is wrong.

Understandable if they plan to sell the Focus to the Chinese, I get that. But as for me, the Focus is no longer on my short list. In fact, I’m getting more fed up with Ford the more I think about it.