GM tells Trump that they and the UAW will decide their business

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  1. Len_A

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    Sales dropped to a hair over 30,000 last year. This years sales are not any better. It's losing a lot of sales to the Kansas City, Kansas built Cadillac XT4.
     
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    Why are you salty because trump is advocating for gm not lay off American workers?
    Oh wait, forgot the left despises the working class.
     
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    GM is moving to china

    It will not happen all at once

    And there may always be a factory or two open in the US to keep up appearances

    But GM is becoming a captive foreign brand chinese company
     
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    It's because Trump created the conditions that have forced them to lay people off.
     
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    So we just keep letting China rip this country off, and engage in unfair trade practices?
     
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    Ok, but that's almost a billion dollars in lost sales.
     
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    You do it in such a way as not to destroy your own economy.
    I'll play a little game with you. It sounds like Trump is getting close to declaring victory.
    Care to put a number on the reduction of the trade deficit?
     
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    Who knows if there will be reduction in our trade deficit at all with China. if you can see into the future, give me next week’s powerball numbers.
    Are you suggesting that we continue to bend over and continue to get screwed by China?
     
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    I sure wouldn't crash the economy without a plan to accomplish the goal. But maybe there is no goal according to you.
     
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    So our economy has crashed, got it.:rolleyes:
    Melodrama much?
     
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    I'm glad I'm out of it
     
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    Boeing is in doobdoo

    We finally got an FAA administrator and he's from Delta
     
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    Whatever that means.
     
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    Is crashing. Now you got it.
    Tell me again what the goal is?
     
  15. Len_A

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    And as the relative of a GM executive, and two engineers, and as a long time GM supplier, I can tell you that you're not only wrong, you're totally full of crap.
     
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    No, maybe half that in lost sales, and even that is offset oh
     
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    Is crashing, huh? Not really.
    The goal is to even the playing field against China. Why would you be opposed to such a thing? What do you have against American workers?
     
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    What is even the playing field mean?
     
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    The playing field- where the competition takes place.
     
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    Pretty simplistic expression, sucks that you don’t grasp that.
     
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    I dont know about all of that

    But typically the spouse being cheated on is the last to know
     
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    What really sucks is you can't define what you and Spanky want.
    How much do you want the trade deficit with China to drop?
     
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    Any reverse in the historical trend would be a good first step, wouldn’t it? Are you under the impression that addressing massive trade imbalances are a bad thing?
     
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    Well sh!t. You should have said so. I'm sure Xi would buy a billion a month just in soybeans just to shut Trump up.
    I have the same opinion on Trumps trade policies as I do his immigration policies. Not that it isn't a problem it's just that he has the wrong approach on how to fix it.
     

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