Ugh. Do not like.
General Motors to invest $5 billion in Mexico
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Cool your jets.So glad they're using the bailout to create American jobs.
1. They've expanded Lansing and other plants in the US.
2. It wasn't a "bailout", the Feds literally bought General Motors at bankruptcy to avoid having to pay many times over GM's purchase price in Federally guaranteed pension insurance, health care coverage, and what would have actually been multiple state bailouts and likely a full blown economic depression.
3. General Motors is no longer owned by the Feds, it's been a publically traded private company for a couple of years now.
Sorry, it just bugs me when someone reverts back to that tired old "bailout" nonsense.
Again an utterly stupid comment.
Last time I checked, Canada wasn't part of the United States, but to you it's OK to export jobs there, but not export them to Mexico?
Being that GM is selling more cars than ever, making more profit than ever, and is running a successful business without them, my own personal raw opinion is that if there's anyone out there who still refuses to buy a GM product simply because of a misunderstood perception of what actually happened, then screw them! They can go jump off a cliff or go buy a Toyota. IMHO there is no lower form of automotive buyer.
If GM is building better cars and trucks, is a profitable AMERICAN company, and thanks to government intervention GM and it's hundreds of thousands of workers along with vendors and entire communities (and even entire states) are earning a living and paying their fair share of taxes instead of being dependent of actual government handouts, welfare, and generosity, then only bloody idiots are refusing to accept that this worked in every way imaginable. To be perfectly frank, I question if they're even intelligent enough to set foot in a Chevrolet showroom..... and I seriously doubt they even grasp the concept that the brown part of their underwear goes in the back and the yellow in the front because they obviously aren't smart enough to wash them....the underwear or themselves.
Perhaps they'd be happier living in Afghanistan where the government doesn't give a crap about it's citizens, it's economy, or it's businesses and these individuals can live happily driving some $5000 India made deathtrap that was made without any regulation or oversight by any government whatsoever.
I'd like to believe that everyone is far more intelligent than that, but we ARE a big country, and everyone has a god given right to be as idiotic, asinine, and retarded as they see fit. Everyone is completely free to not buy what they want, for whatever reasons. Some simply prefer one brand over another. Another might have family history with a brand. One may simply prefer a brand that's given them good luck. But refusing to buy a brand that wouldn't be here anyway if they hadn't gotten help and has prospered ever since and saved the taxpayers heaps of money in the process is something a bucket of crack and repeated hammer blows on the head would have a hard time eliciting from halfway intelligent folks....even if they lived under powerlines and ate lead flakes in their cereal for breakfast daily as kids, while mom was in the other room nursing the baby while she was downing a fifth of Jack and a carton of Camels.
Fortunately, in the REAL world, American car buyers CAN actually think and DO actually have the ability to reason logically, and therefore General Motors and Chrysler are not only making superior cars than before, but are reaping the benefits of making these superior cars by raking in more buyers and bigger profitability.
My opinion on people who refuse to buy from GM or Chrysler? Neither brand need them (let alone the rest of the county), they and their viewpoints aren't important to anybody......outside of their own braindamaged head in whatever fanciful imaginary world they live in.
Get over it.
Most of every American car has parts made elsewhere.
If nothing more than final assembly in the US matters to you, then buy a Honda Accord or a BMW crossover and you'll be fine.
You'll want to stay away from Camaros, Impalas, Chrysler RWD products, GM pickup trucks, Dodge Rams pickups, and a entire long list of other cars.
Finally, FWIW, if you think foreign makers opened plants here in the US to be patriotic, you're about to have your bubble burst..
They opened plants here because our labor unions are nothing compared to what they have in their own country, and because of the US dollar exchange rates and our pay scale, it's cheaper to operate a plant here in the US than to import from their own country.
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