Posted on 01/04/2017 1:21:47 PM PST by springwater13
"Mexico loses thousands of jobs with no word on a clear strategy for confronting the next U.S. government which has presented itself as protectionist and, especially, anti-Mexican," the paper wrote. "Trump will try to recover as many U.S. companies that have set up in Mexico as possible. He will try to make them return at whatever cost, through threats or using public resources."
"Ford's decision is indicative of what awaits the economies of both countries," the daily La Jornada said. "For ours a severe decrease in investment from our neighboring country, and for the U.S. a notable increase in their production costs."
Hope said more decisions like Ford's are likely to come. And while the loss of a single planned plant probably does not fundamentally change the U.S.-Mexico economic relationship, "it certainly shows that the idea that the status quo was entrenched was false."
"This should put us on notice that when he says that he wants to renegotiate NAFTA, he means it," Hope said.
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You left out ‘or else Soldiers of Fortune will come to assist you with the referenced action items’
You see there was something called the industrial revolution which is what gave us our production and living standards
China has the USA going backward to human power as in bus boys carrying dishes and Fast food workers flipping burger: that does not a great civilization make ok get it?
You see city sized factories with massive MACHINES moving materials and molding plastics and metals , mass production does create wealth , tech and high living standards. And this is what China stole from the USA and China is building 25,0000 skyscrapers in the next 15 years to prove that manufacturing is key to production and wealth creation.
And i know you will spin and lie but Obama has ONLY created burger flipper, cashier and bus boy jobs and and no factory jobs so get a brain and read sometime ok about history ok?
Perfectemento.
Why stop there?
Give Americans free foodstamps, education, healthcare, diversity priority, and special privileges for just being “gringos”.
Half of these Mexicans claiming discrimination here in the US wouldn’t even own shoes or shirts if they had stayed in their beloved nation. I know, I lived there for over a decade.
Payback is comin’....
NAFTA members are the USA, Canada, and Mexico. Which one doesn’t belong?
If the feds “incentivize” companies in a manner not authorized by the Constitution, then it certainly IS tyranny.
As I said, protectionist tariffs although ill-advised, are not unconstitutional. But generally federal interference with business decisions is unconstitutional. As I also said, I don’t know of any unconstitutional federal acts contemplated under Trump yet but when it comes to the feds who are now 70%-80% unconstitutional, you should always be “holding your musket, ready to fire.”
The absence of a dialogue about this is a concern because the Right has a nasty habit of turning a blind eye to GOP Presidents launching unconstitutional federal acts. The potential should be addressed and the American People must be vigilant. Remember, the feds are NOT your friend, I don’t care who’s in the WH.
We should be vigilant about reinstating the Constitution as the Rule of Law against the feds in our country. That issue and dismantling the mostly unconstitutional portion of the federal government trumps all other politcal issues
It's about time that Mexico had something big to fear from the US. Maybe they will fear to send more of their deadbeats and criminals and recreational drugs illegally across the border! Fear can be a great motivator.
The Mexican government should have thought of that when they were waving through trainloads of Central Americans through their country.
Having a corrupt third world nation on its southern border has cost the US dearly. Trump isn't interested in putting up with it any more.
See, this, to me, is a really shortsighted piece. Luring US companies has been expensive for Mexico, and what they typically got was a high tech factory which produces little in the way of jobs, zero in property taxes and licenses. Whereas luring companies from China and Asia produces less high tech factories which hire more workers AND they generally don’t demand as much in the way of waiving property taxes and licenses.
But the gigantic X factor is: What will Mexico do with 3 million or more repatriated citizens? Ford’s nothing compared to the impact that they can have on schools, medical system as well as the jobs market.
Can't happen soon enough.
Who are you talking to????
If you don’t see the need for reinstating the Constitution against the tyranny of the feds as the most important political issue of our time, then you are part of the problem.
Are you going to spam every thread about Trump’s plans to recover jobs for Americans from Mexico with your cheap labor, concern troll, boilerplate BS?
Why not wait until he’s been sworn-in before starting up with your tired, open borders “Won’t anyone think of the US Constitution?!?” Helen Lovejoy nonsense.
Trump has done more for Americans since November 8 than Clinton, Bush and Obama all did in 25 years.
In order to placate DJT, Mexico should start building the wall.
At its root manufacturing going out of country is a national security issue. A lot of manufaturing is process know-how and once gone is difficult to recapture. We need to begin to reestablish the knowledge base. Sadly, the current crop of workers seem not too bright and more interested in playing w/ a cell phone than actually being engaged in productivity. Loads of problems to solve here...
I love Trump but your blind, sheeple mentality doesn’t help and warning about watching the feds regardless of who’s in the WH is not “Spam” it’s something that’s been needed for basically the last 125 years, and your blind, semi-comatose state doesn’t help.
If you don’t see the need for reinstating the Constitution against the tyranny of the feds as the most important political issue of our time, then you are part of the problem.
Mexico is always welcome to start their own car manufacturing industry.
We took their jerbs!!! Lol
Mexico is a great if dysfunctional place - but you have to realize that it has considered itself a Communist (”Socialist” as they say) country since the early 20th century, and while it has never had the Stalinist infrastructure to let it be a real threat to the rest of the world, Mexico has persecuted Catholics and kept itself alive through anti-Americanism - that is, blaming its dysfunctionality on the US rather than on its statist policies and resulting massive corruption.
Also, many companies, including in Europe, are finding that they can get their products made faster and in a more responsive manner by having production done in their own countries. Spanish “fast fashion” (Zara, etc.) relies mostly on Spanish factories to produce their clothing, and has had excellent results.
We in the US have a problem with drug use and functional illiteracy among many people who might make good entry-level factory workers, so this will be a challenge. Factory work is much more technical and high-skilled than it used to be, but can offer greater rewards, so the US workforce needs to gear up for this. And if Mexicans can do it, even though they suffer from Marxist teachers’ union strikes every year to the point where they have fewer days of schooling than virtually anybody, certainly people even in the heart of Detroit can do it. Trump or his Education Secretary should take a look at this.
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