GM sponsors film celebrating birth of China's Communist party

[chiroptera]

Originally Posted by stanman13

If you live in southeast Michigan, then you must have some concept of how many people still work at GM. I am fully aware of the situation in Flint. How much worse for the area would it be if GM went down? And if vehicles built in China Korea Europe Mexico Canada bother you, what are you gonna buy? That doesn't leave very many choices, as all vehicles have at least some parts made abroad. There are no 100% American vehicles anymore. None. Where they are assembled is only a small part of the total workforce involved in making a car.

My point was, whatever jobs are left in Flint are there for GM's convenience, not because there's a neat-o trickle-down feature because a vehicle is badged GM or whatever. Flint stupidly became a GM-***** company town and thousands of minimally-educated people here made bank for a few generations because nobody thought forward to the possibility that Generous Motors might have a business model change one day. Now they are reaping the consequences and the city is floundering.

And just to make it clear - doesn't bother me one iota where a car is made (well except maybe China because I am sort of bigoted about Chinese products if I have a choice). It does bother me that I am surrounded by blue-collar zombies who think that if you don't buy a domestically-badged vehicle you are unpatriotic and costing Americans their jobs! People around here can be beyond stupid about that; was my point. It is the hypocrisy that annoys me.

I drive a Nissan truck and Toyota van, currently.

[texdav]

Originally Posted by iTsLiKeAnEgG

Well said. Good marketing doesn't necessarily involve selling what you believe but what you want others to believe in order to get them to buy your product. (Just looking at anyone working for Fox News)

So your saying go long with nayhtin gto seel your products? That is like going along with bribery where required. Not very ethical really.That would mean that what crooks did to sell their hoe is OK. Typical liberal its o if we do it because its for a good cause;thinking. kind of like obam's voting aginst the debt ceiling increase and thewn bombing libya.what it really shows is no principals just ends justifies the means.

[stanman13]

Originally Posted by texdav

So your saying go long with nayhtin gto seel your products? That is like going along with bribery where required. Not very ethical really.That would mean that what crooks did to sell their hoe is OK. Typical liberal its o if we do it because its for a good cause;thinking. kind of like obam's voting aginst the debt ceiling increase and thewn bombing libya.what it really shows is no principals just ends justifies the means.

Hard to argue that corporations doing anything they want to sell products is liberal thinking. That falls much more in line with the corporate conservatives. Anything done to make a buck is ok, as long as it's in the name of private profits.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by sailordave

You're assuming those vehicles are Made in USA, they're not.

No he didn't assume that. No matter where they are made, GM is making the profit on their sale. Just as Toyota makes a profit on Tennessee-made cars sold in the USA.