Re: GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.
 

The profits go to the owners of the company, namely the shareholders.

I frankly would rather buy a Toyota made in Kentucky than a Chevy made in China....assuming quality is the same.

Everyone complains about Chinese imports, but Sam Walton's successors continue to put up more stores. Why? Because we continue to buy there! Why? Because prices are low. Why? Because they purchase a lot from China.

Re: GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.
 

IMHO, every food item or good any of any kind should be clearly mark as being from China. But our own govt. has not and will not demand that to done. In many cases the fact a product in from China is masked and I'm sure that will also be the case in GM cars coming over here too. If I have a choice, I will glady pay a few dollars more for an item NOT made in China.

Re: GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.
 

I was in San Diego 2 years ago shopping in Old Town with my wife.Would you believe that a lot of the ''Mexican'' souvenirs were MADE IN CHINA.And the border to Mexico is only a few miles away.I guess the Chinese workers can even undercut the Mexicans!

Re: GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.
 

WHY IS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. IF OUR CAR COMPANIES WOULD STOP SENDING OUR JOBS OVERSEAS AND MAKE THE CARS HERE I BELIVE AMERICANS WOULD BUY AMERICAN CARS TO SAVE OUR CAR INDUSTRY.

Re: GM PLANS TO BUILD CARS IN CHINA & EXPORT TO U.
 

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Regardless of where the car itself is assembled, the bulk of the net profit returns to the country of origin. I wouldn't buy a Toyota if they assembled them on Mars.

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Who cares where the "profits" are going (when is the last time a US automaker made a profit?).

Honda and Toyota are giving Americans good jobs here in this country. Chrysler and GM are taking away more and more jobs everyday with no end in sight.

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And why has it been so long since U.S. automakers made a profit? Real easy to sit on the sidelines and b!tch, but if we're all going to sit here and complain, let's direct it at the root cause, not a symptom.

Having an auto industry controlled by Japan is not good for the United States, I don't give a damn how many Americans they employ. What we need is three strong, U.S. automakers. We no longer have that, and instead of having a reactionary, "Burn GM at the stake" pity party, maybe our time would be better spent thinking about what the real causes of all this were, and there were several.

Corporations exist for the sole purpose of making money. They do not exist to provide people with healthcare for the rest of their lives. They do not exist to provide incompetent executives with multi-million dollar bonuses. They do not exist to provide a whipping boy to enable incompetent politicians to earn re-election by stupid, uninformed voters who, largely through their own laziness, have been led to believe they're getting screwed by "corporate America" and want to "get 'em back". We've been traveling toward this point for a long time, and now we (yes we, as Americans) find ourselves in the position of losing one of the greatest economic engines in our country's history. One of the greatest, in fact, in the history of human civilization.

Make no mistake about it. GM is fighting for it's survival, and if that survival includes importing a few cars from China, more power to 'em.

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