Rev up your engines, today I'm going to tell you the truth about
GM's plan to layoff a bunch of workers and to shut down a bunch of US factories,
well if you remember a few years back they got the big bailout because the said they
were going bankrupt so the government gave them a bunch of money, and oh to save American
jobs and now their just leaving anyways, so what's the truth behind what's really happening,
now I've read and watched a bunch of these reporters these experts saying, oh market
forces you have to follow the market forces blah blah blah,
but here's the truth and to understand it you need to a little about history,
now I learned to drive on a Chevy biscayne it's kind of like an Impala, it's a big American
car, back in the 1960's when they made solid cars that everyone in the world knew, hey
they were good cars and they lasted a long time,
back then everyone said, oh the Japanese cars are piles of junk what are they making,
well guess what, they kept making better and better cars as time went on from Japan,
while the quality of the American cars starting going down and down,
to give you an example, the Impala used to be a great car, in the 60's everybody wanted
an Impala they were very popular cars their pretty well built, they could last a really
long time, but not so recently the Impala was one of the models that their going to
stop making, basically the didn't build them all that well,
I had customers with them and every single person that owned one when they finally got
rid of it said, I'll never buy another one of those pieces of junk I had more problems
with the transmissions and the engines and the old ones didn't used to have very many
problems, so these experts that talk about market forces
is forcing them to shut down these factories and layoff people, that's basically a lot
of bs, they were just making the cars poorly and
they were making models that people didn't want like the Chevy Cruze, which not only
was it a model that people didn't really want, it was really poorly made, I had a customer
with one, he's been through 3 automatic transmissions that went out completely in the first 75,000
miles of driving that car, that's just crazy, and look at another one of their failures
that their not gonna making anymore, the Chevy Volt, hey they tried to compete
with the Toyota Prius and they failed massively, the cars were garbage compared to what Toyota
was putting out, so they can talk about market forces all they want, a lot of the problem
is they were making vehicles that were either poorly made or people didn't want to buy them
because they didn't like the way they looked or the way the handled,
and unlike the Japanese like say a Toyota Corolla, they started out with a basic car
and they keep improving it over decades, GM was like, oh that model didn't work we'll
get rid of that one and try something else, it's much better to build something and perfect
it over time than to just say, oh that didn't work lets try something else and see if that
works, some of their ideas are, oh we'll go to just
a bigger vehicle, SUVs and trucks that make a lot of money, well talk about short sighted
again, now just because gas is cheap they think, oh we'll sell these giant vehicles
for a bunch of money, well guess what people, gasoline is a limited things, the price is
only going to go up and it will probably happen relatively soon, and then all those big cars
people are going to not be driving those anymore and then they'll be in a even bigger mess
than they already are, and as far as I'm concerned, GM's idea of
shutting down these factories down in the US and laying off all these Americans, hey
that has to do more with them making a profit in China not the US,
realize that from the last data I could find, the Chinese produced 24.5 million cars and
at that same time period the US produced 4.1 million cars, a big difference,
and as for GM itself, GM sells 70% more cars in China than they do in the US, and these
cars are all made in China, so if things continue like this, I wouldn't
be surprised that if someone in the US wants to buy a GM car in the near future, it's going
to be made in China not in the US, even though we taxpayers bailout GM the last
time, their big thank you is, bye we'll see you in China,
they didn't seem to say, oh the market is forcing them to do that when they took all
that taxpayer money, you know their giving these promises about US jobs and stuff but
as soon as they see a way to make their cars in China, sell them in China and probably
import those Chinese ones over to the US, hey those guys are basically laughing at the
average American, and it's bad enough they were making cars
that had faulty ignition switches and then they cheated and changed the parts numbers
so they think, oh people aren't going to figure out that we made these bad ignition switches
that some people were killed in wrecks because the cars stopped running,
you know their not interested in telling the truth about the problems that they have, but
taking taxpayers dollars and then shutting the factories down years later anyways and
moving all the stuff to China, hey all I got to say is, you can vote with your dollars,
don't buy their products, nobody is going to force you to buy one of their products,
at least not yet, hey take Toyota for example, they make a bunch of them in the US and they
have for decades, you might end up driving a Japanese car around that's made in the US,
where if you buy a GM it's going to be a Chinese made car, the world is upside down on that
one, so it's really a double edged sword when you
think about why GM is laying off all these workers and closing all these factories down,
they've often made poorly designed and built cars that didn't last so their base that used
to be, oh when I was a kid people would say, oh I buy a new GM car every 3-4 years, well
that base is gone and then they want to make them cheaper so their going to move all their
production to China where they can make them cheaper,
now the Chinese factories are all modernized so they have less labor that they have to
deal with, but from what I read about them, they have really good quality, for example,
buicks are like the real popular car for the upper level management guys to ride around
in a Buick in China, kind of like it used to be in the 1950's in
the US, a little time warp there, so basically, the real problem is greed, they
want to make their cars cheaper so they can make more profit and eventually they want
to make the most profit by building their cars somewhere else where they can make them
cheaper and in the modern factories more efficiently than in the old factories in the US, my hometown
Niagara Falls had the same fate itself, when I was young, there were factories everywhere
building all kinds of stuff but they were old factories, first they moved the factories
over the Mexico, then they even moved them further to the East because it was even cheaper
there than it was in Mexico, so if you think about it as a career, hey
you probably wouldn't want to get involved in either building cars in the US or working
for the company that builds them because you'll find that your job will probably vanish in
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