St. Obama's Auto Trouble
Henry Payne writing in National Review:Senator Obama rarely drives himself anywhere, depending instead on a Secret Service-provided fleet of 15 mpg Chevy Suburban SUVs (pictured above).
But now that Chevy is compromising him on the issue of trade.
Campaigning in Ohio this week, Obama folded his standard anti-Detroit message into a larger, anti-NAFTA theme, ripping into the Clinton-signed trade deal that Obama claims has sucked Midwest manufacturing jobs south of the border.
And where is Obama's Suburban assembled? Silao, Mexico.
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Did the United States Secret Service give Obama a choice of armored vehicles or did they just happen to have armored Chevy Suburbans in their fleet?
His choice of automobile has taken flak before. Before Obama was placed under the watchful eye of the Secret Serviice, he had been driving a Chrysler 300C.
The 300C has final assembly in Brampton, Canada. The engines for the 300C are shipped from Salitillo, Mexico.
However, a gas-guzzling V8 sedan is not the best choice for a politician looking to pander to responsible American citizens.
He later switched his personal vehicle to a Ford Escape hybrid assembled in Missouri.
"American made automobiles" have been extinct for some time.
Show me one "American" branded vehicle that is 100% made in the US.
I knew you couldn't.
It is impossible for Barak to own an American made car of recent vintage.
Why bother about what sort of car the big eared buffoon rides around in?
What should worry you is Obama's long standing socialist agenda...
Have you checked out what the clown wants to do regarding the the lending industry and how he wants to baby sit the idiots who can't figure out what a mortagage contract is?
^ It seems Obama wants to change the condition you specify. He's proposing that the policies opened up by NAFTA allowed automakers to push jobs into Canada and Mexico. This, in turn, made it so you could not buy a car with 100% USA parts content.
It's well known that a "domestic" automaker produces a product that is the cumulation of input from numerous countries. No one presenting the argument where we have to find a USA built vehicle.
What is being communicated is that at the same time Obama points out problems with NAFTA, he often utilizes vehicles whose existence are the direct result of NAFTA. It wasn't until he took flak about his vehicle that he switched to a Ford Escape.
Here's a fun link to check out on this subject:
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/355/the-carscom-american-made-index
"He's proposing that the policies opened up by NAFTA allowed automakers to push jobs into Canada and Mexico"...
What Obama is proposing has absolutely NOTHING to do with reality...
Federal government intervention and trial lawyers have made it cheaper for companies to move facilities offshore...
Its been happening since at least when Carter was in office...
The maquilla program was around a long time before NAFTA...
"No one presenting the argument where we have to find a USA built vehicle"...
Ahhh, so what?
Why would foundries, steel rollers, paint manufacturers want to deal with the extortionists from the federal government along with the corporate tax rates?
"What is being communicated is that at the same time Obama points out problems with NAFTA, he often utilizes vehicles whose existence are the direct result of NAFTA"...
Then as usual the libtard Obama would be wrong...
So called American automobiles have had foreign parts in them since at least the sixties...
Foundries in Monterrey, Mexico cast tranny cases, rear end cases, and drive shafts for Ford, GM, and International Harverster since the sixties...
Thanks for the link... It does look interesting...
Jobs are a cost - it is good to ship them to other countries. What we want is wealth, and that is produced when people make things for cheaper elsewhere and we buy them for cheaper.
If you really want to save these low tech, crappy paying jobs, then make the Sherman Anti-Monopoly act apply to unions, like it should. Once you break the unions, US automakers might become competative again. Without that, you might as well just nationalize the industry and make auto workers federal employees. Oh yeah, that would be good.
Marko said...
Jobs are a cost - it is good to ship them to other countries. What we want is wealth, and that is produced when people make things for cheaper elsewhere and we buy them for cheaper.
Exactly and our biggest export right now besides jobs is money.
Sovereign wealth funds will save our butts and allow us to live another day.
We are exporting money? You mean we are sending little pieces of paper to a foreign country, and they send us cheap shoes? If the shoes are cheaper than other shoes I could buy, I don't think that is exporting money, that is creating wealth for me (and the guys that sold me the shoes).
I have a HUGE trade deficiet with Amazon.com. I don't lose sleep over it.
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