GM doesn't decide to send jobs away from american soil and then determine the cost savings/benefits. that's all figured out upfront... these aren't simple decisions GM makes. it's not on a whim, and it's not to be unpatriotic. it's to make more money. look into where the levis you're wearing were made. i'll bet you an equinox it wasn't in the states. i'm curious to know how GM will remain as profitable with north american manufacturing facilities if they stay put and leave everyone else to build in the cheapest location. i've said it before... i don't laugh this off, or wish ill on any single american worker... but how will this trend ever be stopped?
and did we ever come to a conclusion... what makes more sense (patriotically speaking)? buying a car from an overseas company with an american plant, or buying a car from an american company that has been imported into the states? in the first case you're helping out the local economy with jobs, but the profits end up in a land far far away. in the second case you're supporting manufacturing in that far away land, but the money finds its way back to GM... an american company... which in turn can then invest it in the facilities it does have in the states.
i'm canadian... so i can't buy domestic. though perhaps teh equinox is closest. i'm off to find a bricklin... oh wait... mustang motor. ah! we be dammed up here!
