Comments by "" (@indonesiaamerica7050) on "Why American Automakers Are Failing In China" video.

@gumpyoldbugger6944 US manufacturing is not playing catch up. If only. It's called Managed Decline. US manufacturers are deliberately being hamstrung. First World countries must stop producing things. Including beef and chicken and so forth. The latest excuse is Climate Justice. But US automakers started to die when they were forced to convert their factories to produce war materials for WWII AND accept labor unions for all such factories. Those weapons systems destroyed all of the competition around the world so it took a few decades for anyone to realize that they had stopped innovating and put all of their profits back to shareholders and workers. Cast iron engines and cars designed in the 1940s (with fresh skin designs) were sold for decades without any innovation whatsoever.
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@thomasanderson9539 Nat fan is being sarcastic. But actually the problem with US automakers is really all about domestic and international politics since WWII and even before that when the US governments started strong-arming manufacturers to make it easier for "labor unions" to organize. For auto manufacturers the unions were forced on them when the factors were seized to produce war materials for FDR's World War AKA WWII.
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@merrick6484 He was but Obama wasn't. And the issue isn't which workers are the best in the world but what political and economic system rewards the best workers. The USA has been riding on fumes for about 100 years now.
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@silveriver9 Betting against Communism is not the same as betting against China. Central planning creates economic bubbles. If you don't care about that and just want to make money you can use buy and sell triggers to hedge your bets and make money just about anywhere.
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@ASD-DAD Those are not US operations. Those are US registered corporations working with Brazilian operators. Lots of "globalist" manufacturers do the same thing. Especially with cars. And most of the cars built in Brazil were designed by Ford and GM in Germany, not the US.
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@onlineshoppingjakarta7338 I think the first Shelby Cobra used a British (Ford) engine and British (AC) chassis. Later models switched to slightly bigger small block US made engines and then of course the big blocks were made in North America.
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@gumpyoldbugger6944 They can't afford to pay union wages and deliver affordable, high quality cars in the USA. The CCP cut then a deal. I think they have a 30% stake in a consortium that makes cars that look like they are trying to compete against South Korean autos.
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