Posted on 01/03/2017 8:05:42 AM PST by rb22982
Ford canceling plans for $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, investing $700 million in Michigan expansion instead
Only eight counties in Michigan gave Hillary a plurality on November 8. She cracked 50% in only six counties and 52% in only four. This does not bode well for her in 2020, LOL!
That's because Trump re-purposed an existing political party - the GOP - to reflect traditionally conservative democratic policies.
It's why the old vanguard of the GOPe opposes Trump, along with their allies on the far left, the progressive socialists. They both hate the threat posed by the center (as crafted by Trump) to their entrenched uni-party corruption.
My first thought, exactly. The Compost or Slimes will send reporters down to the Mexican town where the factory was to be built and chronicle all the squalid conditions there and how cruel it is of Ford-AKA Trump to condemn these poor people to lives of misery.
The only thing we don’t have yet is the media and schools. If the media was even 50/50 there would never even be a threat of a democrat winning the presidency ever again!! Amazing what xan be accomplished when patriotic adults are in charge.
That's not only true -- that's obvious.
Compact car sales by make/model for 2015, which was the last year available for full-year figures (figures rounded to the nearest 500 units) ...
Toyota Corolla -- 363,500
Honda Civic -- 335,500
Hyundai Elantra -- 241,500
Chevrolet Cruze -- 226,500
Nissan Sentra -- 203,500
Ford Focus -- 202,500
Volkswagen Jetta -- 131,000
Mazda 3 -- 108,000
Subaru Impreza -- 100,500
Dodge Dart -- 87,500
Kia Forte -- 79,000
Volkswagen Golf -- 65,500
Buick Verano -- 32,000
Acura ILX -- 18,500
Mitsubishi Lancer -- 17,500
As I said in my previous post, these figures hurt Ford because the company sells a lot of light trucks and SUVs -- and the stupid EPA regulations require them to achieve average fuel efficiency standards across all of their models. For every four F-150 models they sell with an average fuel efficiency of 17 mpg, they have to sell five Focus models with an average fuel efficiency of 33 mpg in order to reach a 25-mpg average (for example).
They sold over 780,000 F-150s in 2015, so you can see how this math doesn't work for them.
There is a BIG difference in government that wants a company to hire and a government seeking to regulate to insure worker entitlements multiply.
It is still 1,466,219 until he is inaugurated. Just wait a while.
And like Moses never reaching the holy land, all the old-timers had little to zero effect in helping Trump. Rather, it took the younger generations to finally understand what had been endlessly revealed & discussed @ FR for literally decades. Specifically, if it hadn't been for Seth Rich leaking the DNC emails to Wikileaks so that everyone could finally see for themselves the shocking level of PIAPS corruption, even then the MSM might have turned the tide for evil.
I'll be the first to admit I thought we were done. That is, those 28 bad years were just a precursor to the final coup de grace. How Trump pulled it off is really some kind of miracle, perhaps equal to the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad or other, real demonstrable changes in the course of history.
Braying like a little globalist hack you are.
I’ve heard the argument that labor rates are the deciding factor when companies mover their production out of the U.S., but I am not convinced that is the case. While there is no question a Mexican, Malaysian, or Chinese worker is paid less than their U.S. counterpart, I believe that advantage is more than offset by poor productivity, local customs, including bribery at every level, and transportation costs. I think the critical factors are taxes, regulation, including environmental factors which inhibit plant expansion, sometimes unions, and a general anti-business climate. That’s my take on it anyway.
Big Business knows Trump means “business”!!!!!!!!
It doesn’t matter if MI is a right-to-work state if there are already labor agreements in place that cover the entire nation. Ford can’t open a plant in Alabama, for example, without hiring UAW workers.
Winning with Trump bump!
Braying like someone who doesn’t know how an industry works, you are.
I’ve heard the argument that labor rates are the deciding factor when companies mover their production out of the U.S., but I am not convinced that is the case. While there is no question a Mexican, Malaysian, or Chinese worker is paid less than their U.S. counterpart, I believe that advantage is more than offset by poor productivity, local customs, including bribery at every level, and transportation costs. I think the critical factors are taxes, regulation, including environmental factors which inhibit plant expansion, sometimes unions, and a general anti-business climate. That’s my take on it anyway.
It’s about time that we see some winning in the oil & gas industry.
The thing is...it would be hard for any common sense president NOT to be successful. There is so much crap to get rid of and swamp to drain that will immediately impact this nation positively beyond belief. We have just been stuck with it for so long we forgot what success was like..
#TSTR-MAGA!
Oh noes. ....more win.....quick. ...a big dose of some schardenfroide salve.
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