The problem is that he thinks he is smarter than he really is and definitely smarter than those who have spent most of their careers in any given field. He prides himself as being a great deal maker, but in several cases he has made really bad deals as a result of thinking he is smarter than he really is (over paying…

Wrong. Toyota builds some models of the Tacoma in Tijuana and Ram builds several models of its full sized pickups in Saltillo. All of them are for the North American market. IIRC, NAFTA exempts Canada and México from the Chicken Tax.

You mean like the environment and labor additions to NAFTA that Clinton signed?

I agree with keeping it just as a trading bloc. The rest of the what the EU has become would result in an even bigger mess if it were ever tried with the American continents. The Brexit shows that there are significant number of people would have rather kept the EU just as a trading bloc.

so you don’t think offering a wider array of vehicle choices isn’t good for car buyers?

Nope

No, Ford’s customers and potential customers are better off because they have more choices available to them, just like those people who want to buy a Cruze hatchback. If a vehicle being made in the US isn’t making a profit, the manufacturer will eventually drop it. If they have nothing else to build, those…

It was ok for those countries until they switched to a common currency. That gives their governments less options to be able to deal with economic slowdowns.

If the TPP would have opened up the Japanese markets to US exports, that would have been a benefit to US manufacturers, but the public perception is the opposite due to scaremongering.

It also helped that the Japanese didn’t have the albatross of UAW legacy costs around their necks. That and a lot of other things changed around the 2007-9 timeframe though. It had to or we would be referring to the “Big Three” in the past tense.

Wrong state. The Cherokee is going to be made in Belvedere, Illinois. 

Is the bet only for impeachment or does that also include health issues? Trump is the least healthy looking person to be POTUS in my lifetime. LBJ and Ford looked like athletes compared to this guy. I can see the stress of the job forcing him to leave before anything else.

That depends if a lot of loopholes are closed when the tax rates are dropped. The effective tax rates paid by most corporations is much lower than the 35% rate thanks to those loopholes.

It was always accounted for in the US’ debt. All the Obama administration did was fold it into the DoD’s budget instead of keeping it as separate items. The US govt spent about as much on the Iraq war cost about as much as the 2009 stimulus package.

Just think how many plants they would have closed in trying to compete with the Japanese if they didn’t have the lower cost NAFTA factories to help out.

No, those people will just cross the border on a visitor visa or via other means and stay in the US, reversing the decline in the number of illegal immigrants from México that’s been occurring since 2008.

Yes, the new Compass for the US is going to be built in México. The plant where the old one was made is being retooled to make the Cherokee.

Unfortunately, tarrifs usually do not make it so “the best product wins”. They are often used to protect the market share of inferior products. The US and the U.K. auto industries in the past have been perfect examples of this. The customers are hurt by increased prices and a lower amount of competition in the…

That’s how the various tribes acquired their territory to begin with.

Some may consider that an improvement.