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Wait a second. GM has been screwing us for years”
How, exactly? Gm has done more to develop automotive technology than all other car companies in the world together. While they did not invent the product, they made it the commercial success it is today.
Yes, Detroit labor is expensive, but the blame is in DC, not with the unions. Crushing regulatory costs impact employees every bit as much as it does employers. America is an expensive place to work and live, try living in Michigan on the same amount of money as someone in Korea or China, you will find that the homeless here have a higher income than the workers that assembled your wondercar. Force foreign companies and employees to pay the same costs, and their product will be no where as affordable or have near the quality the American made example will have.
Plus, by sending all the money and sourcing overseas, short sighted Americans are just slitting their own throats the same as a dairy farmer can enjoy fresh steaks today, but have no future income because he killed his own means of production, and has no money to replace it.
Money that stays in our economy is re-spent many times over, providing income and even taxes well above the initial expenditure. Send it overseas and it is gone forever.