Boycott GM ?

Vanity | 3.30.09 | Vanity

[hunter112]

I've not bought any of their products new since 1982. And the only two exceptions were a couple of $400 beaters that I picked up in the 90's that lasted the six months or so that I needed them to.

It has nothing to do with unions or bailouts, I just got tired of being a sucker, getting a car that would not outlast its financing.

[Nik Naym]

I said “What car is being made in China and sold here?”

Your answer: “parts of every car.”

That wasn’t the question, but OK, I’ll play along. Name three parts on either of MY cars that are from China. Ought to be easy, as they came from one of your “third world countries”: Japan. One is a 2005 Mazdaspeed MX5, the other is a 2007 Mazda 3. (Which by the way were built when Ford owned controlling interest in Mazda, so guess where the profits went?) Gee this car origin stuff gets complicated, doesn’t it?

“So your argument is that OSHA did not improve worker safety?”

That is EXACTLY my argument.

You are being ridiculous.

The conditions you show in the first picture were gone many decades before OSHA came along. The picture shows what appears to be a young girl working in a textile mill. THAT situation was addressed through child labor laws.

Your second picture has no point.

Do you really believe the only way anything good happens is with a government bureaucracy?

And for your “link” RE Mexican car factories, I see Ford, GM and Chrysler. All of those are “American” companies I am supposed to buy from in order to be a true blue American.

Are you a DU plant?

Union thug?

Communist?

Just wondering.

[kellynla]

Yea, well because Americans have failed to support MADE IN USA products over the years; America & Americans have the “freedom” to “choose” between Chicoms or Arabs to borrow funds from to keep America afloat.

Now, you have the “freedom” to “choose” which language you and your descendants should learn, Chinese or Arabic...

Because the way things are going, if the Muzzies don't get cha, the Chicoms will!

[libh8er]

if the Muzzies don't get cha, the Chicoms will

Uh.. didn't you know the Chicaps are the new Chicoms? :)

[o2bfree]

Slight problem there, Toyota employs Americans yes, but their profits don’t go to America.

My answer: 1) Neither GM nor Chrysler have any profits. 2) Any profits they have are going to the Unions. 3) All the debts are going to the USA, the shareholders, and the bondholders.

[mysterio]

You know, I’m about the furthest thing from a “communist” you’re going to find. I don’t care what you buy. Have a good one.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Judging by their sales figures, America has been very effectively boycotting GM since the 80’s.

[mjlenox]

Your logic would be sound IF America COULD return to manufacturing.

Unions prevent America from EVER returning to manufacturing. The only way to break the union stranglehold is to STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS. Unemployed workers cannot unionize.

Sometimes it takes painful measures to fix what is horribly wrong.

[kellynla]

You signed up on FR today just to post that NONSENSE!

I won't even dignify that stupidity with a response.

[patriot preacher]

Just a figure of speech...

[Ready4Freddy]

But the lion's share of the $$ are spent in the US. Face it, GM and (especially) Chrysler can't compete. They're history.

Therefore the profits of the venture goes straight to Japan, not Alabama.

[cherry]

we won't buy another GM product....we work hard for our money, don't get bonuses or pensions or get to sit around in a room and do nothing and get paid for it.....

they can go to hell....bama and his fellow nazis.

[cherry]

I believe absolutely in buying American but the playing field needs to be level....

if bankruptcy and loss of pension and medical benefits was good enough for my husbands work, its good enough for all those GM workers.....at least some of them.....

we're not supposed to be playing "favorites" in this country but we are....the favored get the govt backing and the rest of us are allowed to flounder.