Why China isn't going to build cars for the U.S. anytime soon

[redstar826]

Making cars in China has been used to scare voters and even Chrysler workers in the presidential campaign's waning days, but the reality is Chinese-assembled vehicles will not be exported to the U.S. anytime soon

Comments

[layweed]

If Romney becomes POTUS then I hope someone petitions to have "Hail to the Chief" replaced with the Benny Hill theme song because that's what type of fucking joke his presidency is going to be.

eta: i should probably have saved that for something a little more mitt romney-centric, huh?

[blackjedii]

REM's "End of the World As We Know It"?

[skellington1]

No, I DON'T feel fine.

[blackjedii]

Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"?

[bananainpyjamas]

This x1000. Anyone with even basic knowledge of the auto industry would know that China will not be "stealing" American auto manufacturing jobs anytime soon. Automakers' push into China is all about tapping that emerging consumer base, not saving money on manufacturing.

[trojanchick99]

Hearing about the Jeep factory workers calling their union panicked they were losing their jobs after seeing that horrible Romney add almost induced a rage blackout. It's cruel to play with people's lives like that.

[blueboatdreams]

I feel like we hear this information so often and so few people actually pay attention to it.

[rex_dart]

There is constant very loud complaining in my household over the way Romney talks about China. We manufacture our goods in China, because China is where wigs are made, straight up. There is no international competition on this front. Even Japanese companies source their product there. So now we're in a situation where rich fucks like Romney ship jobs to China (which is so goddamn different from the idea of China "stealing" jobs, like they come over here and run off with our factories in the dead of night) for their own profit, then blame the scary foreigners for it and talk about getting tough on China, and who does that hurt? My small business and our workers, who have never shipped any jobs anywhere and don't even have the power to do so but whose livelihoods are only made possible by Chinese manufacturing.

I have so many feels about this subject and all of them are rage.