Wednesday, May 23, 2012

General Motors or China Motors?

Patricia Evans shares video evidence that "General Motors is becoming China Motors." On this video, a GM spokesman pledges to work with and for China...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo&feature=youtu.be

The trouble with all this global brotherhood and chumminess among corporate executives is that it's based on a policy of ongoing exploitation of poor people. You can trace the movement of a greedhead corporation from New York or New England, to Pittsburgh or Akron or Milwaukee, to some place in the South, to Mexico, and now to some part of Africa or Asia that's still in recovery from twentieth-century socialism.

Back when the words were a liberal line, Peg Bracken counted among the 108 other sins that she thought were just as deadly as the traditional seven: "Paying anyone else less than a White man for doing the same job." Right on. And the position of this web site is that the idea is still right on, even now that it's coming from the...I am not and have never been a member of the John Birch Society, but I'm not too prejudiced to give their ideas a reality check either.

If you are manufacturing something, and you really want to hire foreigners, the cost of shipping means that you probably have some reason for wanting to hire foreigners. So I say you should hire them...if you still want to hire them on exactly the same conditions you would hire Americans. If there really is a good reason, such as the raw material growing in their country in the first place, so you save money by having it processed there, then "imported" can still be a status-symbol word.

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