Seriously. I read this somewhere last week and people returning to ICE were apartment dwellers, which is the majority of Californians, which is sort-of mentioned here.

Or they just didn’t like the car. My father in law has a C-Max plug in. He loves it. I love hatchbacks, and considered getting one, but after driving his, I hated it. I ended up with a Honda Insight in 2014. It was fine. Now I’ve gone to a 2020 Mini Cooper Clubman JCW. I got 41mpg avg in a slow ass bottom of the…

There may have been tax incentives available when they first purchased the vehicle, and when they went to get a new one, it may have no longer been available. (or any number of dealer or manufacturer incentives)

First of all, Jalopnik is like 3 days late to this. Ive seen this posted everywhere.

Be willing to hire someone willing to learn and teach them, then. Don’t ask for someone that knows how to do it but only want to pay them $40K a year. I’ll do anything, but if I don’t know how to do it, I’m willing to learn. You need to be willing to teach.

Pay more, train more. The amount of corporations who complain about a shortage of this staff, or that staff, and you ask them about their training schemes and they just shrug. It costs money to learn stuff, not just the money to pay for tuition and training, but money to fund all the regular living costs you still…

Saw the perfect saying this morning:

Oh you’re right that globalism isn’t really a partisan issue. That’s mainly because that “segment of America” that you’re referring to whose ideals would actually fit the definition of globalism consists of maybe a thousand people who spend their time sitting around in drum circles and smoking peyote.

I don’t think ANY administration is going to have any major effect. Republicans LOVE to preach about business freedoms and free market, but they get upset when businesses do the exact expected thing and exploit cheap labor in undeveloped countries. I’m sure I could really throw some mental gymnastics into the loop if…

Peoples worry about losing jobs to Mexico always strikes me as odd. Mexico is a friendly neighbor. You don’t want illegal immigration - having a healthy economic Mexico probably helps more than anything. Mexico is a lot better than losing manufacturing to China.

They want it, they just lie to their constituents that out sourcing is due to the “libertards” and not GOP 50 year policy.

Honda, Toyota and BMW also have Mexico facilities which build vehicles sold in the US.

Let me guess, you think Trump was “saving American jobs”, right.

The problem is, that this is not a decision that GM made overnight. It is something that they have probably been planning for for years. Starting when the other guy started fucking them over 4+ years ago with his “easy to win Trade Wars” that made essential materials more expensive to get in the US.

This sounds like capitalism in action, so any self respecting conservative (does that even exist?) will not have a problem with GM’s move. 

I’d be interested to know the international efforts of the UAW or the legality of international collaboration. Labor should not be a country by country argument; in a global economy, Labor should be global as well. Actively pushing to organize, uniting with the CAW and European unions, etc. to act as a negotiating…

“Lessons haven’t been learned”

“We want globalism! No, not that globalism...and not that globalism either.”

That was 13 years ago. The loans were paid back early and in full. Get over it.

1st - The only thing supply side economics achieved is making corporations more profitable.