Originally Posted by
blackdove83
NOT caring where something is made is pretty backward.
That's mentality has lead to outsourcing of labor to countries like China, that give us garbage in return for our money. That mentality has lead to huge economic destruction in the USA and other countries.
It really does matter where things are made, because without PRODUCTION, you can't really make money. Shuffling debt around and creating financial fiction is different than actually making money from productivity.
Outsourcing and then taking profits doesn't help the economy of the country that's doing it. The CEO's will get income from it still, but it puts people out of jobs that they'd otherwise have, producing things domestically.
I really find it disgusting when people make statements like the one you did.
There is the Walmart model of outsource cheap crap to China, and there is model like this Regal where it is made along side of the cars that it is based on, which ultimatlye saves GM money and keeps it afloat, something is rather critical as a whole. The first issue if more about consumer-ism, if there is no market for stuff like that, there wouldn't be need to outsource that kind of jobs. Aside from unfair trade and wage practices in the countries like China, US's own wage level is what priced people overseas anyway.
Despite all the gun-ho about made-in-USA and what not. The bean counter ultimately makes the decision. For something as high capital as automobile, if it makes sense to be made in Germany, it will be made in Germany....same reason that BMW X5 or Mercedes ML is made in USA and ship around the world...
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