Anyone remember when he went on The Daily Show and Jon Stewart scolded him like a naughty child and he couldn’t do anything but sit there and take it? Good times.
I’m out of the loop. I was under the impression all American car manufacturing started in Mexico and ended in the American Midwest / South. So it would just be moving production down that line. Did VW do manufacturing entirely in Mexico? Does VW have reliability issues? I stopped my interest after the Diesel scandal.
Most cars built anywhere have parts sourced internationally and then finished at one plant or another. This is a link kind of detailing how much of a car is sourced from the US.
VW has had some issues with Ignition Coils and the like, but most of their issues come from complex German engineering being put together by underpaid workers. That being said, they do have an “average” reliability score, so they’re not terrible, though the repairs tend to be costly because, again, complex German engineering.
Sure, in the case of non-union workers, Federal minimum wage and workplace regulations are a joke. Thankfully, no UAW worker is making that minimum wage. They’re unionized for a reason.
Although Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi, he had a lot of good common sense business and economic points. He made sure all of his employees could easily afford the cars they were building and it made an empire.
How did we get to this point where a large portion of the country somehow believes workers shouldn’t be able to afford to buy anything?
That is actually easy: They don’t think about the economy as a whole. They only look what might suit them best in this exact moment to increase „shareholder value“ for a short moment.
Anybody that thought Cramer was for anything but infinite rise in profit no matter the cost hasn’t really been paying attention to his entire history of shilling for corporate interests.
Well, who’s going to move all the existing tooling to factory sites in Mexico then? Where are they even going to find good factory sites in Mexico with access to good transportation (ports and rails) and skilled labor force on such short notice?
Moving manufacturing is a major undertaking for any company, of course, I don’t expect someone like Jim Kramer to know that.
Of course, but the thing is, it’s been decades since NAFTA, and all the good sites for manufacturing has all been taken by someone already. So, if they try to move now, not only will they have to build the factory, they’ll have to also build power stations/railways/port expansions, which could take multiple years.
No you see outsourcing jobs is good for conservatives because it prevents illegal immigration and increases profits for the shareholders.
Making living conditions in Mexico so good that they wouldn’t want to come north to our shithole country is the best way to fight illegal immigration and totally pwn the libs.
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