Chinese components

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

Originally Posted by motorhead

When will people wake up and see what is going on.

Originally Posted by Number 3

My guess........about 5 minutes after it's too late.

Sad thing is there are people reading this that don't know what you are talking about.

[cab2g]

When they say 60% is that by weight or volume? Because a computer chip really is super small, but it has millions of parts...

[smhss]

Originally Posted by motorhead

Which 6-speed? They have three different ones for the mustang depending on motor and model.

The tranny in the GT. :-(

[cab2g]

Originally Posted by BackinBlackSS/RS

Sad thing is there are people reading this that don't know what you are talking about.

I for one welcome our new Chinese owners... just kidding.

[mulletman]

I told the car salesman when I ordered the Camaro that I wanted the shiny wheels. He must have misunderstood and got me the Chinee wheels.

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by myold88

The only time I needed to use my warranty on my '06 Impala was for the drivers sunvisor which would no longer stay up- Inside it said: MADE IN CHINA.
I blame it on Americas unions- You can't pay people $40.00+ an hour to put wheels on new cars, you just can't.

If you're right, then unions must have something to do with the high unemployment rate in the USA. If we can't compete with other countries then it makes sense a lot of jobs would be lost to them.

It's a good thing that we have a lot of smart people in washington working to correct this issue, right?

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by smhss

The tranny in the GT. :-(

Where did you get that info? Very interesting seeing how that's the same company that builds the tranny in the camaro ss. I thought they where built in mexico. (like that's any better)

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by mulehead7

No, but we can pay a CEO $100 million a year to ship all of our jobs over there...!

Sounds like a smart move. If you make a widget and have to pay a lot of taxes, a lot of medical insurance, a lot of union wages plus pension plans, and other benefits to a million employees, while some other company overseas doesn't have to pay any of that stuff, your company is going to go out of business when your widget cost more for you to build than the other company sells their widget for.

If you have 100,000 employees and you can save $1000 per year on each employee (that's about $0.50 an hour) by giving the job to someone else, then you just earned your $100,000,000 salary for the year!

[BackinBlackSS/RS]

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

Sounds like a smart move. If you make a widget and have to pay a lot of taxes, a lot of medical insurance, a lot of union wages plus pension plans, and other benefits to a million employees, while some other company overseas doesn't have to pay any of that stuff, your company is going to go out of business when your widget cost more for you to build than the other company sells their widget for.

If you have 100,000 employees and you can save $1000 per year on each employee (that's about $0.50 an hour) by giving the job to someone else, then you just earned your $100,000,000 salary for the year!

Pretty damn clear if you ask me.

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

Sounds like a smart move. If you make a widget and have to pay a lot of taxes, a lot of medical insurance, a lot of union wages plus pension plans, and other benefits to a million employees, while some other company overseas doesn't have to pay any of that stuff, your company is going to go out of business when your widget cost more for you to build than the other company sells their widget for.

If you have 100,000 employees and you can save $1000 per year on each employee (that's about $0.50 an hour) by giving the job to someone else, then you just earned your $100,000,000 salary for the year!

Just remember that it's the politics of this great land that is causing it's death.
I don't fault the companies for using the politics to their advantage.

[Ghost1LE]

Originally Posted by mulletman

I told the car salesman when I ordered the Camaro that I wanted the shiny wheels. He must have misunderstood and got me the Chinee wheels.

wow.

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

Sounds like a smart move. If you make a widget and have to pay a lot of taxes, a lot of medical insurance, a lot of union wages plus pension plans, and other benefits to a million employees, while some other company overseas doesn't have to pay any of that stuff, your company is going to go out of business when your widget cost more for you to build than the other company sells their widget for.

If you have 100,000 employees and you can save $1000 per year on each employee (that's about $0.50 an hour) by giving the job to someone else, then you just earned your $100,000,000 salary for the year!

Not too long ago...such an idea would have had a person thrown out the front door for being a selfish prick. Of course...that was back when we had a strong sense of national pride in ourselves and brother (and sister) citizens...I wish I knew how to get that back....:(

[motorhead]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

Not too long ago...such an idea would have had a person thrown out the front door for being a selfish prick. Of course...that was back when we had a strong sense of national pride in ourselves and brother (and sister) citizens...I wish I knew how to get that back....:(

It all starts at the top. If our government had that kind of national pride it wouldn't have created the policies that put us in this mess.

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

Not too long ago...such an idea would have had a person thrown out the front door for being a selfish prick. Of course...that was back when we had a strong sense of national pride in ourselves and brother (and sister) citizens...I wish I knew how to get that back....:(

It pains me to say that staying in business trumps national pride in most boardrooms.

These are very complicated issues and unfortunately the problems are so intertwined with other issues that it's going to be very hard to try and unravel this mess.

Plus... far too many people have made their own little fortunes exploiting the mess and they're not about to let anyone take away their golden goose by fixing the problems.