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Jeep, an Obama favorite, looks to shift production to China
Washington Examiner ^
| Oct 25, 2012
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 10/25/2012 6:51:50 PM PDT by DaveTesla
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Your tax dollars at work!
This will be a disaster for Toledo Ohio and a windfall for communist government state owned Guangzhou.
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posted on
10/25/2012 6:51:51 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
To: DaveTesla
I guess thats why the Detriot Free Press endorsed Romney because Obama can’t run a car company
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posted on
10/25/2012 6:57:55 PM PDT
by
scooby321
(AMS)
To: DaveTesla
Jeep has now been crossed off my list of vehicles I would like to own. I thought Chrysler owned the Jeep name.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:02:58 PM PDT
by
sean327
(God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
To: DaveTesla
I guess I will be spending lots of money in the future in the Aftermarket, and not at a dealership. I love my JKU Rubicon, and would be perfectly happy to drive it for the next 25-30 years.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:07:06 PM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: scooby321
Wait, where did you see that the Detroit Free Press endorsed Romney? The Detroit News did this morning but I woudl be shocked if the Free Press, one of the most liberal papers in the Midwest, would endorse Romeny. I would love for you to be right but I would like to know the source.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:09:09 PM PDT
by
kempster
To: DaveTesla
An American Original and Classic.
Shipped off to our enemies......SIGH
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:09:33 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
( Wherever I find myself standing, I forever stand with Israel.)
To: DaveTesla
Well just damn Chrysler. I'm on my 3rd Grand Cherokee and had planned on a 4th eventually but not if it's made in China.
There is just something wrong with the descendent of the vehicle that helped win WWII being manufactured in a Communist country.
To: DaveTesla
There is a Jeep plant in Ohio. Wake up Ohio.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:17:32 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
To: DaveTesla
GM building 70% of their cars in China, now Jeep going to Chine.
Two Companies that were bailed out by Obama bailing out on the United States.
That’s your Obama plan in action./
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:20:42 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: sean327
Jeep is a division of Chrysler.
Fiat has a 61.8% stake after acquisition of the equity interests held by the U.S. Treasury.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:24:53 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:25:21 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: DaveTesla
You could eliminate all unions, regs and taxation on manufacturing and the lure of slave labor would not be overcome. The funny thing is with autos labor is only about 10% of the cost of manufacturing. When you factor in building the new factory and increased shipping costs the amount saved is pennies on the dollar. Bastards. I say tariff the hell out of the incoming jeeps.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:32:51 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: DaveTesla
The Oboma sponsored bankruptcy of both Chrysler and General Motors reduced debt and gave temporary relief but did little to address the core problem of unsustainable labor cost. Short of another bankruptcy, moving to China is their only way to deal with the hold the UAW has on them. That is essentially what Romney cautioned about at the time of the first bankruptcy.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:37:03 PM PDT
by
etcb
To: central_va
Fairly low tariffs equally applied were the preferred type of taxation by the Founding Fathers. They were right.
The War of 1812 was financed without an income tax and with interruptions in tariff revenue. A generation and a half after the Revolution America had neglected its Department of War and its marksmanship. The Washington, DC sacking by the Brits was our humiliation but we soon drilled reserves into forces that were formidable. The Battle of New Orleans showed we could defend a city.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:44:57 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: central_va
It’s not about costs.
It’s about handing technology, manufacturing, and the means to create wealth in America to a communist system.
Handing over the future to the communists so
a global communist order can be built.
In the end they will fail,
and won’t even understand why.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:46:07 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: DaveTesla
I think people are reading this wrong.
The original Bloomberg article talks about localizing production in China and specifically states "Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."
So they're NOT going to shut down Jeep production here in the US, but rather open up additional production lines (possibly lines for all their models) in China - iow localizing production (producing the vehicles where they plan to sell them.) Jeeps for the US (and probably North American and European) markets will still be made here in the US.
This is nothing new - Jeep transferred production of the 1984-style Cherokee to China after it was replaced here in the US by the Liberty. And other Jeep products have been license-produced overseas (I think there used to be a plant in the Philippines) over the decades. Other manufacturers are doing the same with various lines.
Considering that the cost of producing products here in the US is captive to the UAW, I can't really fault Fiat/Chrysler/Jeep for moving in this direction.
To: Monterrosa-24
What good are tariffs if WE are handing the whole industry over to the communists on a silver platter?
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:48:52 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: DaveTesla
“What good are tariffs if WE are handing the whole industry over to the communists on a silver platter?”
Because tariffs take the silver off the platter.
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:55:18 PM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American that a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Monterrosa-24
“Because tariffs take the silver off the platter.”
Don't hold your breath...
The folks that are supposed to impose the tariffs are
behind the transfer.
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posted on
10/25/2012 8:00:31 PM PDT
by
DaveTesla
(You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
To: DaveTesla
Fiat has lost their mind if they think they are going to make Jeeps in China and ship them over here. They will be broke in a month after the first shipment with warranty claims. I work for a major parts supplier and the Big 3 want 100% perfect parts with 1-3 micron tolerances on a stamped part. We are barely able to make that in the US, no way our China plant is going to do that or have the capacity to handle the volume of that.
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posted on
10/25/2012 8:48:37 PM PDT
by
ClayinVA
("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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