GM Expects To Be Target Of Attacks In Democratic Debates
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General Motors is expecting to be the target of attacks during the upcoming Democratic debates in Michigan, with the company releasing a pair of U.S. production “fact sheets” in an attempt to quell any disinformation being spouted.
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The automaker announced in late 2018 that it would be closing four US production sites as it shifts its company strategy to focus on trucks and SUVs. It closed the Lordstown Assembly plant earlier this year, which built the Chevrolet Cruze, and closed the doors on its Warren Transmission Operations plant earlier this month. All told, the cuts resulted in about 15,000 jobs being lost , 8,000 of which were salaried.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and Representative Dan Kildee were scheduled to hold a press conference with UAW workers right across the street from the Warren plant on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The focus of the conference will be to “highlight Trump’s broken promises on the economy,” in the area, the DNC said in a statement. The president previously campaigned in the region and vowed to fight for autoworkers’ jobs there.
GM’s alleged fact sheets aim to highlight all the ways the automaker is contributing to the American economy. One sheet reads: “GM’s U.S. manufacturing footprint is massive, especially compared to our operations in Mexico,” in large letters at the top and is followed by numbers and figures on its American workforce. GM says it current has “about three US hourly employees for each hourly employee working in Mexico (46,000 versus 16,000) and says its investment in U.S. manufacturing since 2009 is “almost five times greater than our investment in Mexico,” at $23 billion versus $5 billion.
The fact sheet also states that GM has “repaid our debts, and we have invested tens of billions of dollars back into the United States since,” the 2009 automotive bailout.
The Democratic primary debates from Michigan are scheduled to begin tonight at 8 p.m. ET.
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Source: Reuters
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Yes all the Dems can do anymore is play the race card or the victim card. They can’t talk about the economy.
what a bunch of losers!!!
i bet none of them have declared bankruptcy 6 times.
how many of them kiss up to dictators around the world? putin’s poodle, kim’s fluffer. the bone saw sheikh’s acid boy.
MAGA 2020 baby!!!!
We hear you loud and clear, Steve. You’d rather go to war with these countries, rather than have diplomatic relations and solve problems in a civilized manner. Good job, Genghis Khan.
I don’t get it. As soon as GM announced they were shuddering plants, President Trump publicly challenged them to make new positions available for the folks that just got shafted. When GM scoffed at that, he demanded a meeting at the White House between he, the Labor Secretary and GM Brass. Pres. Trump attacked them head-on for this slap in the face.
How are the Dems going to spin this?
Just be honest! Geesh…
The GM PR/BS machine is in full force. Explain to us why you have the largest market share in the US but employ the fewest number if hourly employees among the Big 3. Why is GM the only other automaker in the US that is closing plants? Incidentally, you forgot to state that you import more Mexican made vehicles into the US than any other automaker. Finally, you boast you spent $23 billion in US plants. Does that include the money you invested in the doomed plants? Considering the going rate for an assembly plant is $1.5 billion, and conservatively the going rate for a powertrain plant is $500 million, is it safe to say GM disinvested $4billion in the US?
Any criticism that GM gets is richly deserved.
if GM wants to sell cars world wide it needs to build them in a country that has free trade agreements with the countries GM wants to sell in and a lot of those countries have a free trade agreement with mexico which the USA does not have. blame it on your pols in washington
Have you heard of nafta? It’s still in effect
This is baloney on so many levels.
Democrats are an absolute disaster of a party. A total joke. Obama alone racked up 9.5 trillion on the national debt, and didn’t even try to curtail spending.