President Trump Rightly Tells General Motors and UAW to Get Their Act Together – Lordstown Ohio, Auto-Plant…
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Posted By: earlybird,
3/18/2019 9:31:15 AM
Calling attention to the brutally obvious is a key element to President Trump’s use of Twitter. In this example President Trump (the business executive) highlights how GM is shutting an Ohio auto-plant at the same time multiple auto manufacturers are expanding operations in the U.S. (tweet)President Trump is 100% correct. In just the past few months, specifically as an outcome of the USMCA, six auto companies have decided to massively expand U.S. operations and spend over $20 billion on auto-manufacturing investments in the U.S. It makes no sense for an existing auto plant to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FunOne 3/18/2019 9:53:25 AM (No. 4667)
When the federal government chooses to save a company because it is "too big to fail", the leadership of that company might be encouraged to go for another bail-out Obama style.
The GM nickname, Government Motors is very appropriate.
President Trump will not fall for this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DEW JR 78 3/18/2019 10:47:25 AM (No. 4669)
My wife and I were GM bond holders, relatively small amounts, but large enough to us, when Obama took GM over and gave it to the union. Yes, this same union that now is crying and won´t negotiate with itself. A POX on all these Government Motors workers(??)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/18/2019 11:52:21 AM (No. 4664)
Chevy is boring and has always been boring except for a couple of years of decent Corvettes. Their pickup truck division was recently fingered for lying about quality performance. Maybe their sales figures told them that they can´t compete.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
aasilver 3/18/2019 12:04:18 PM (No. 4662)
After 40 years of GMC Yukon XL´s and a total of 6 new ones, I vowed to never buy a GMC products again. When Obama screwed the bond holders, including pension funds and 401K´s, they were no longer on my shopping list.
Ford toughed it out and I will repay them with new purchases.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/18/2019 12:16:34 PM (No. 4665)
Like President Trump said: Bring back one of the operations in Mexico or Canada. America first!
It is amazing that the workers in Lordstown allow the union to destroy their livelihoods.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/18/2019 12:32:57 PM (No. 4663)
Lordstown should have been closed years ago. They used to make the Chevrolet Vega there. Quality control was so bad that one day, a Vega rolled off the assembly line WITHOUT AN ENGINE. The UAW local down there has always been a problem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 3/18/2019 12:37:40 PM (No. 4668)
It´s all about the unions. The Press Union in NYC would not reduce their demands with the Herald-Tribune back in the sixties, when the Trib said it couldn´t continue with things as they were. The union wouldn´t budge and the Trib closed. The union couldn´t have cared less back in that day. This time, the UAW is coming up against Trump. The companies coming in to the US don´t have unions except for Fiat-Chrysler. Who will come out on top? I´ll bet on Trump.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
agape 3/18/2019 3:29:20 PM (No. 4666)
GM is building cars in China and is perhaps willing to bet against President Trump’s re-election.
Car companies usually plan models 2 to 4 years ahead and perhaps GM is sure that Donald will be gone and they will be able to bring into the US their new Chinese cars.
They will have very advanced and futuristic auto-drive, but each will actually be operated or “driven” by a very remote China-person at a keyboard, joystick and screen from their 200 sqft apartment just outside of Peking.
Of course, you will need to install a link to your local US residential WiFi, camera(s) and audio-links to “help” your auto-drive system “learn” your driving route, directions and travel plans.
Each apparently “self-drive” car will also have a small self-destruct button for Kamakazi safety concerns (although that is really a Japanese cultural objective, isn’t it?).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/18/2019 7:07:12 PM (No. 4670)
To add to #7s post, the chevy vega/pontiac astre was manufactured at Lordstown, (I owned the pontiac version) and believe while the workers there were indifferent (they once went on strike because of boredom) they were given a vehicle so poorly engineered and designed, that pride was impossible.
The engine was aluminum, as was the head, but the two parts were built apart, with different coefficients of expansion. (That is the physical property of metal that makes old time thermostats work.) So if the engine overheated, the head would curl up and the head gasket would blow. And the engine wore out quickly because of the softness of the aluminum. Some of those cars didn´t make it to 20,000 miles.
Dealers had to try to solve mysterious rattles, only to find out that Lordstown workers sabotaged the product by placing empty coca cola bottles inside the doors.
The air filters could not be replaced - you had to buy the whole assembly.
I have called it the first disposable car.
I don´t blame GM for shutting down Lordstown.
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