30th Sep 2010, 21:50
Last time I checked, over a million people was more than a handful of employees! And import companies pay their people what they should be making, and not over inflated salaries that drive their own businesses into the ground.
Why do you think our own government offered the Japanese car companies tax breaks? Hmmm, well I am sure it wasn't because they were taking jobs from Americans or sacking our economy with their products. We want them here and for good reason. They build better products, plain and simple!
Also stop making bogus claims that GM has paid off their government loans. Since they are 61% owned by the government, that doesn't even make sense! They have done absolutely nothing in the past 2 decades to instill any confidence that they can be a viable business. To blindly support their incompetence just because they are "American"... well I just don't get it! It is no wonder this country is on the brink of disaster, with so many who turn a blind eye to major business that has no idea how to be profitable honestly and respectably.
1st Oct 2010, 03:19
"People somehow ignore the fact that Japanese companies funnel all of their profits out of the country."
Wrong. It's the other way. It's GM that's funneling money overseas by building production capacity elsewhere. At least Toyota is building production capacity in the US, investing here. GM has been downsizing for decades, shutting down factories. A money spent on a Ford or GM product means more money to be invested abroad. 90% of the increased production capacity for GM lately has come in countries like China.
30th Sep 2010, 21:41
We'll see how irrelevant this argument is when the number of foreign workers that build "American" cars is much higher than the actual U.S. workers. It is heading in that direction pretty quickly.