chrysler officially a foreign car....
ok so then whats the difference if you buy an american made toyota for example? i see many here bash the american made toyota, honda, kia...etc.. because the profits go overseas... never mind that all those companies employ thousands here in america also. so where are the profits for chrysler going now?
i just get a kick out of the assclowns that bash foreign cars because they are foreign owned even though many are designed and built here, yet love them some chrysler even though from 98-08 they were foreign (german) and now they are foreign yet again being owned by the italians. amazing the double standard (or hypocrisy) there is when it comes to the old pentastar.. :)
I'm not bashing any brand of cars at all. I stated clearly that, to me, at least, the loss of brand to a foreign entity is the problem.
The "thousands of American jobs" that the Foreign manufactures replaced the old UAW jobs with pay less, have fewer benefits. They weren't an equal trade off, so to speak.
When we lost the automobile industry to Asia, we lost high paying jobs, we lost the profit that GM, Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep would reinvest on American soil, we lost the design studios and those workers and salaries, and the execs, and their salaries and the personal spending that they did here. We also lost approximately 1000 other cottage industry businesses that made parts, and castings, and paints, and plastic, and much of the machinery used here in the "domestic plants" for foreign manufactures. We lost to the design teams for those machines, and we lost the raw materials, as most of the steel now used to build cars here in the US for ALL manufacturers now comes from China.
How many jobs do you think were saved by domestic assembly plants, vs. the number of jobs lost to off shore industries? Suffice to say that we didn't come out of that trade off on the plus side.
Yes, I agree with you that the domestic assembly plants owned by the foreign car makers does employ thousands of Americans. However, they did not replace all the auto industry jobs lost, here, and they replaced none of the auto industries supply and support industry jobs that were never moved to America, and probably never will be.
Also, keep in mind that while we did get the assembly plants, 7 out of 10 of the manufacturing plants are still off shore.
