GM accepts bailout from Obama and moves production of Cadillac to China!

We should all boycott GM. This is wrong on so many levels.

I've always hated GM so there's nothing to boycott.

On another note, have you seen this story? Looks like a typical Gather draw news item that no SWs have picked up on. Maybe you want to throw something up, Carol.

With Escalade you get egg roll.............

I wonder if people will feel like driving again an hour after getting out of their Caddies.....

That's funny, Berf. Chinese food will never live that down, no matter what they do to it.

Way to go, Berf!

GM moved some of their auto production to Mexico and over 3000 jobs were lost on Flint Michigan then thousands more.

Don't buy a Cadillac. Built by Chinese it won't be worth the money.

Carol,

China is an almost two billion people market who is in love with Cadillac. In order to sell them there, the Chinese demanded the production to be local. It is a normal move.

I remember Kohler, the toilets people from Wisconsin. In order to enter the Chinese market, they had to open assembly lines in China. The move not only that it did not cut the production in the USA, but gave them the cash to expand in the States.

If you remember, in order to penetrate the American market. Mercedes had to produce its cars in the USA, so did Toyota and the rest. As a matter of fact, there were some frictions with labor, because the American workers had smaller wages and almost no benefits compared with the German workers producing the same cars in Germany...

Right after the bail out GM reopened the Cadillac plant in Lansing, which is working three shifts. There are less people than they used to be working though, because the line is automated, which is a norm in today industrial environment...

GM is not my role model, but there are times when it is better to know the whole picture...

The truth of the matter is that manufacturing eventually will shrink around the world. Why do we have industrial robots and computers?

C'mon Crin... what good is all that information? Even though it's factual, she can't use it to bash Obama, bailouts OR GM. It's of no use to her at all.

I don't know, I thought that if you really want to make a point, it is a good idea to use irrefutable arguments...

Am I too old fashioned?

It's not an irrefutable argument, Crin. There's no such thing as an "irrefutable argument" or it wouldn't be an argument. If not for the tariffs countries impose on their imports, this would not be happening. There are advocates of free trade who would knock your argument on its ass.

Ha, ha, ha Sue. do I really ave to teach you the words? Why don't you check the definition of the noun argument???

Take your pick.

Your argument, not at all irrefutable, can be disputed as I said above so ha, ha, ha yourself into oblivion.

You do realize that Chinese factory will be selling those cars in China and sending profit back to the U.S., right?

I was also thinking that in a short time, even if we wanted to produce for the Chinese market here in the USA, we would not be able to... With their population size, their real number of people who are paying for products is at least a couple of times higher than the population of the USA in absolute numbers...

That's true as well, Crin.

Well, I for one, have also hated any GM vehicles and wouldn't waste my money on them.......this gives me better reason to never, ever buy anything GM.......how disgusting, but then, truthfully, I guess we shouldn't be surprised!

cheap Chinese parts in a Cadillac? no thanks!

Nothing wrong at all with moving manufacturing jobs to China. By all means we wouldn't want to put Americans to work in decent paying jobs so they can spend the money back into the American economy. And the never ending arguments that people dream up to support this are actually quite educational. No, not really. Actually, they are quite sickening.

GM already employed more people and sold more cars over-seas than here, this adds too it. They have also agreed to move their electric car EV/hybrid work to China as well not long ago. Calling it an American car company is somewhat a misnomer, and has been for a while. What is sad is that the taxpayers bailed them out to save all those jobs, while losing them here. GM still employs less people in the US than it did before the bailout, continuing to expand in places like China instead. Let them bail them out next time...

GM has never been my favorite. After the bailout thing, I'll never buy one.

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