2nd and 3rd gears: As a salaried GM employee, our earnings broadcast made me do a happy dance. My group was watching the broadcast in our “lunch room” at my plant and our jaws hit the floor.

The only way that manufacturing jobs will ‘come back’ to the US, is when the US standard of living is low enough that the average person can survive on $4 an hour, and that number is dropping fast as new technology comes out.

Again, pollution kills people! It’s not just ugly, there is a huge public health cost. In VW’s case MIT projected that it will result in 60 premature deaths, and could result in another 130 if not corrected promptly: http://news.mit.edu/2015/volkswagen-emissions-cheat-cause-60-premature-deaths-1029

Everyone over looks because one of the following:

Thanks for the title of 1st Gear: “It’s Not The Crime, It’s The Cover-Up”

The Cruze’s he tweeted about had always been built in Mexico. The only Cruze’s imported into the US from Mexico are the hatchbacks. Politifact reports that of the ~190K Cruze’s that were sold in the US last year, only 4.5K of them were hatches. (The other 24.5K Cruze hatch models that were built in Mexico were sold…

Pontiac was dead regardless. All the Feds did was tell GM that they weren’t going to waste the bailout money propping up a brand that wasn’t viable. You can be sure if their had been no bailout, GM’s under-performing brands would have been just as dead.

You are definitely the target market for this program.

I don’t think the lack of understanding about the global economy is unique to cars, but cars are unique in that they are one of the few things people demand we save American jobs for. How many of us own TV’s made in the US? Or most of our other appliances for that fact.

1st Gear: That’s a really interesting point that I never heard articulated when TPP was on the table. I wonder if you could somehow explain to Trump voters that the fact that Mexico has trade agreements with the EU and Asian nations when we don’t means that more American jobs go to Mexico, they might have seen things…

People forget the entire economy is a global one. But they are about to get a lesson in it real quick.