Posted on 03/06/2019 4:05:25 PM PST by Hojczyk
You might recall, a little more than a year ago, when liberals were absolutely giddy over the news that Ford was going to be building an automotive plant in Mexico after all.
It was seen as a defeat for President Trump’s America first ideas and a failure of one of his campaign promises. I wonder what they’ll be saying now? The company just announced that the Mexico deal has been scrapped and they will instead be expanding a plant in Michigan, adding hundreds of new jobs. (USA Today)
Ford Motor announced Tuesday that it would cancel plans for a $1.6 billion Mexico plant and launch a Michigan expansion in a move that may be viewed as a capitulation to Donald Trump.
Ford CEO Mark Fields said the company would spend $700 million and add 700 jobs to “transform and expand” its Flat Rock, Mich. manufacturing plant to make autonomous and electric vehicles.
“Make no mistake about it — Ford is a global automaker but our home is right here in the United States,” Fields said at a press conference.
This is an interesting development, mostly for the people of Michigan. A 700 job expansion is nothing to sneeze at and with technology increasingly moving in the direction of autonomous vehicles, this will keep them in a growing market.
But it’s also something that will be of great interest to the President as we head into the next election cycle. After only narrowly carrying the state in 2016 with a plurality, beating Clinton by barely half a point, his approval ratings have been underwater there by as much as 15 points recently.
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“Make no mistake about it — Ford is a global automaker but our home is right here in the United States,” Fields said at a press conference...
WHEN was the last time ANY company felt compelled to say that before Trump?
Would AOC approve?
I wonder if the people of Michigan will be grateful or will they vote for the dem who will ship the jobs to Mexico?
This is a big win.
That is a real and valid question.
$1 says this is a response to Chrysler’s new Detroit factory announcement.
Outstanding, more winning.
MAGA!
The MSM will make sure that hardly anyone hears about this, or understands its significance.
Where are the never-Trump posers?
Yep, it will be buried and then twisted in some warped fashion to sue Trump.
Meanwhile government motors closing the Lordstown Ohio plant.
Electric vehicles built by union labor.
I think she'd be elated.
I remember touring Lordstown Assembly in the early years.
They built full size Chevys (body on frame) and Pontiac Firebirds (partially unitized body with front subframe) on the same assembly line.
Trump meddling in American corporations affairs cost thousands of Mexican jobs. s/
You just wrote the headline for the MSM...
Viva LA USMCA! NAFTA is dead.
Just saying.
Michigan narrowly helped Trump.
Narrowly. About 10,000 votes I think.
“$1 says this is a response to Chrysler’s new Detroit factory announcement.”
Well, elsewhere here in the past couple of days, there was an announcement by Ford that they were shuttering their two plants in Russia. The underlying issue with Ford is that they are not profitable, and need to shore up their manufacturing to stop the bleeding. And FWIW, I just imagine that Ford finally figured out the Trump WOULD impose tariffs on the Mexican plant’s offerings coming into the US. All these posters who rail that Trump doesn’t follow through, or he’s weak, have their heads firmly ensconced in their posterior apertures.
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