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Originally Posted by Skyman 08
I will just make a comment on this one statement
The reason GM or any other US manufacturers have gone overseas is because the consumers went there FIRST....and the only way to compete was to go to the same places the foreign manufacturers make stuff... in other words the american consumer is also reponsible for driving our businesses overseas. I have been saying it for 0ver 30 years, and for 30 years nobody was listening... Gee, I hate repeating myself...
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Consumers did not go there first(I don't believe anywhere in our history has American consumers demanded cheap foreign products). American retailers(see Walmart and the likes) saw a profit line by bringing in cheap foreign goods and putting it up for sale over here. Companies and politicians should have put a stop to this from the begining. Free and fair trade is great and all but hardly competitive when a chinese worker makes 1/10 of what an American worker makes. Don't blame the consumer most of them don't understand(ignorance is bliss), this lies in the politicians and corporate Americas pocket!