Posted on 09/14/2016 3:29:17 PM PDT by Nachum
DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. says it's moving all of its U.S. small car production to Mexico.
Ford CEO Mark Fields confirmed the long-expected move Wednesday during an event for investors and Wall Street analysts.
Ford currently makes its Fiesta subcompact in Mexico, but its Focus and C-Max small cars are made in suburban Detroit. Making them in Mexico would boost company profits because of low wages there.
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Hey Baracko, go have a 'meeting' with experts and talk about it...
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Giant Sucking Sound
He hasn’t heard about it yet. He’ still out on the links.
Perot’s giant sucking sound still rumbling on?
Trump just got very competitive in Michigan…...
And yet the labor union hierarchy are down with the program. Union workers should revolt on their own leadership, which is selling them down the (Rio Grande) river.
Trump just sealed Michigan. What’s next?
Trump just got very competitive in Michigan…...
Yeah, is Ford trying to throw the election to Trump?
I bought my last new Ford (an ‘86 Mustang GT) in 1987. Prior to that I had ordered an EXP from overseas. Guess that streak will continue.
It used to be that cars were made in Flint, and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now cars and made in Mexico, and you can’t drink the water in Flint.—Donald Trump
Perot’s giant sucking sound still rumbling on?
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I remember Perot saying we would become a nation of “chicken pluckers.” What’s odd is that good manufacturing jobs are moving there and the chicken pluckers we have here are from there.
Another Globalist dream! Jeb Bush must be smiling!
Soon, a nation of burger-flippers will have no one to flip burgers for because nobody else has a job.
Any cars they sell in the US will have a 35% tax added to the price if Trump is elected.
Not excusing their decision, but small cars made in America have little or no profit margins.
The philosophy has always been to attract customers with entry level cars, then hope they move up to the more expensive, profitable vehicles as their income increases.
“Ford Motor Co. says it’s moving all of its U.S. small car production to Mexico. “
Yeah, good luck getting them back into the country, morons.
Actually chicken processing for the US is moving to china...along with pork.
That jug-eared little Martian was dead - on target in 1992.
Actually chicken processing for the US is moving to china...along with pork.
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That’s true and very scary.
Only a matter of time before those cars are made in Mexico also.
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