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Trump attacks General Motors over China, US employment
cnbc.com ^ | August 30, 2019 | Michael Wayland

Posted on 08/30/2019 11:06:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

President Donald Trump on Friday attacked General Motors for its significant presence in China and questioned whether the automaker should move the operations to the U.S.

Trump, in a tweet, said GM, “once the Giant of Detroit, is now one of the smallest auto manufacturers there. They moved major plants to China, BEFORE I CAME INTO OFFICE. This was done despite the saving help given them by the USA. Now they should start moving back to America again?”

Many of the claims in the tweet against the Detroit automaker were misleading or inaccurate, according to industry data and officials.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: automakers; fordmotor; manufacturing; trumptrade
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1 posted on 08/30/2019 11:06:05 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

He sort of had to do that. GM plant closings stand to really hurt him at the ballot box in Ohio and Michigan.


2 posted on 08/30/2019 11:07:13 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

How does Trump get blamed by voters for GM closing plants?


3 posted on 08/30/2019 11:14:50 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: billyboy15
How does Trump get blamed by voters for GM closing plants?

Cause they're union types who typically vote Democrat. They voted for Trump in '16, but with big plants like Lordstown closing the UAW is cranking the propaganda volume to 11.

When your community is suffering you look around for someone to blame, and Trump is in the buck-stops-here chair. Not fair but that's how it is.


4 posted on 08/30/2019 11:19:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Very true.


5 posted on 08/30/2019 11:23:02 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

So buy Fords.


6 posted on 08/30/2019 11:24:19 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

During the Obama Administration, his appointees intervened in the bankruptcy proceedings for GM. They violated, the laws governing which debtors had to paid first, to screw bond holders - and to give the Democratic Party hacks that run the United Auto Workers majority control of GM.

They have rapidly followed Chinese industrial policy since, ripping production out of the USA, and shipping production and technology to China.

Just this week, the homes of the head of that union, the former head, and multiple sites of theirs were raided by police.

Not only are they massively corrupt, they are at heart traitors to their country.


7 posted on 08/30/2019 11:28:24 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Berlin_Freeper

GM is run by a woman. What do woman know about cars? How many women mechanics do you know?


8 posted on 08/30/2019 11:31:49 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: billyboy15

Obana is the one responsible. Some$thing made him favor GM when all those car dealers were closed. I know personally I swore that I would never buy another GM car. I’m sticking with FORD so far. I wonder how GM stacks up in the U.S. against other U.S. brands.


9 posted on 08/30/2019 11:37:35 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: Berlin_Freeper
hey moved major plants to China, BEFORE I CAME INTO OFFICE.

They sell more cars in China (3.6 million) than they do in the U.S. (3 million). Of course the manufacturing plants will be there.

10 posted on 08/30/2019 11:43:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I left GM after 30 years of utter cr*p cars. I cheered when they declared bankruptcy. I gasped as Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy successfully broke laws in order to bail out this collection of pretend car makers.

May GM go the way of the dodo. Sink, burn, toast, whatever - just keep your excrement away from me.


11 posted on 08/30/2019 11:48:55 AM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: WVNan

The story I remember hearing back in 2009 was that GM was closing dealerships and that the Obummer admin was squeezing GM to keep open black-owned dealerships at the expense of closing white-owned dealerships.


12 posted on 08/30/2019 11:50:29 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: Cowboy Bob
How many women mechanics do you know?

Well, Bonnie on Knight Rider was was pretty good with them.


13 posted on 08/30/2019 11:58:16 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
He sort of had to do that. GM plant closings stand to really hurt him at the ballot box in Ohio and Michigan.

Partner, we saw something very interesting the other day on national TV.

Of course, we only saw the assembly line in China which was only for about 15 seconds and the media went to something else.

First of all, who is the world gave them the technology to fabricate cars in China since the U.S. came up with the assembly line and we came up with the know how and ingenuity to build the assembly line, yet the assembly line was in China.

Do we have to shout this at the top of our lungs everytime we see that the "American Hating Piece of Work Obama" gave them this technology free of charge???

The Chicoms steal and copy all of the American Technology since this technology has been proven to work since the best American know how and ingenuity was put into practive what actually works for a car assembly line.

14 posted on 08/30/2019 12:07:12 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Mary Barra of General Motors Company is too cute to fail. /s


15 posted on 08/30/2019 12:15:42 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: eCSMaster

Ford stock is a good buy right now.


16 posted on 08/30/2019 1:18:51 PM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Let’s see, how much stimulus money did Obama give them to keep them afloat??? It was enough to change their name to Government Motors, or should have.Infused with all that tax=payer money, they head for China. There must be a name for companies like GM.


17 posted on 08/30/2019 1:55:19 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Rappini

I own Ford stock. Pays a very good dividend.


18 posted on 08/30/2019 3:58:32 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
GM is run by a woman. What do woman know about cars? How many women mechanics do you know?

Mona Lisa Vito, Automotive Expert from, My Cousin Vinny.


19 posted on 08/30/2019 4:32:21 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I personally know of four. But
two of them are aviation mechanics.
Does that count?


20 posted on 08/30/2019 6:45:17 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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