Posted on 05/10/2013 3:33:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
As a general rule, corporations should be able to build plants where they want, whether it’s in America or elsewhere. Moreover, if they choose to go overseas, we should be asking, “Why is that?” Are our corporate taxes too high? Do we have too many regulations? Is there something else that we can do as a nation to be more business-friendly, to keep building plants here in America, so that we can employ more people and rake in more taxes?
However, it’s a little different with a company like General Motors.
Taxpayers lost more than 10 billion bailing out GM because Obama thinks it’s fine for his corporate allies to embrace capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down. Now, GM’s taking some of that money that it pilfered from us and it’s building a plant in China with it.
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Agreed.
We have an extremely open system.
What we do not pay enough attention to is, China has a very closed system. The opposite of ours.
While we are flooded with imports (mostly from China, which hires zero Americans making any of it) China is filled with domestic goods.
China makes stuff sold here.
And China makes stuff sold in China.
War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery.
heh heh heh.....
At least UAW wages stay in the country.
Partly correct: Many parts are manufactured in, or are completely assembled in Canada.
I am glad the free traitors don’t have free reign over Free Republic anymore. It is heartening that the ones pinning Lady America to the floor while every country rapes her are getting flak......
Look the alternative to Union labor is not foreign labor.
That is just as bad. Worse even.
The alternative is other American labor.
What percent of manufacturing is done in the USA by union labor? Do you know?
BS. By transferring our industry and manufacturing to Red China Free Traitors have absolutely ruined this country. Even with high taxes, over regulation, and corrupt unions we had prosperity and those things could have been dealt with. But without plentiful, high paying, wealth creating jobs this country is finished. The people that deliberately did this to us need to be put on trial and punished.
Worth repeating.
China makes stuff sold here.
And China makes stuff sold in China.
And most of it is junk!
That's not the point.
They have power beyond their actual output. Way beyond what they should. That's why they invested so heavily in Bambi.
That's why they are so readily protected and rewarded by this "fair trade" anti-free trade administration. They put him in power, he keeps them in power. It's the Chicago Way.
But I guess you forgot that.......
Is that supposed to have meaning? What?...
I never said that.
Man, you are dense.
Had they not subcontracted production, sales would have evaporated. The companies would have died.
You don’t understand that the forces you deem as Free Trade are actually competition. If you chose not to compete, you end up not playing.
The American total dominance after WW II was anomaly, not normality.
Well do you know what the stats are? What the percent of manufacturing done by unionized workers?
Why do you think Boeing wasn't allowed to build a plant in a non union state? I notice you didn't answer that one.
And here I thought you were actually interested in non union jobs.......
In better times what happened in South Carolina and Boeing would have started secession and possibly Civil War II. These are not better times.
Giving taxpayer money to GM to open plants in China is not anything remotely related to “free trade” - it is government-sanctioned theft. It is a betrayal of not only taxpayers but of American union workers, who although they have no natural right to employment, have a right not to have their own government screw them.
How did they get that power?
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