Buick Envision: Made in China
The Buick Envision website presents all the features and designs of the luxury crossover vehicle. What it does not reveal is that it is made in China. The idea that taxpayers bailed out GM while other businesses went begging made many people mad. But the idea that GM is now moving jobs offshore to China should enrage worker and taxpayer alike. It will surely be a point of contention in the coming election.
[Donald] Trump has drawn attention to GM competitor Ford for the company’s decision to move manufacturing to Mexico, but Ford wasn’t the recipient of a taxpayer-funded bailout. [Bernie] Sanders, meanwhile, has used his opposition to the bailouts to show that he isn’t influenced by crony capitalism–all while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has tried to take credit for saving the auto industry with her support of the bailout.
Breitbart News reached out to American Jobs Alliance to get its reaction to GM’s decision to import Chinese-produced cars. “When the taxpayers bailed out General Motors, we were told it was all about saving jobs in America. Now GM turns around and throws Americans under the wheels of Buicks made in China. Where does it stop? Will General Motors build Cadillacs, Chevys and GMC trucks in China next?” Curtis Ellis executive director American Jobs Alliance told Breitbart News.
General Motors has also announced plans to sell a Chinese manufactured hybrid Cadillac, the CT6 in American markets.
“Flint was known for decades as Buick City. It’s now jobless, bankrupt and destitute,” Ellis continued.
Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, blasted GM’s decision in a statement to Breitbart News.
When the Bush Administration bailed out GM there was an implicit agreement that they would build cars here. GM’s decision to manufacture vehicles in China was an insult, but it takes real chutzpah to import those very cars to compete against American made autos that don’t necessarily have a US companies nameplate. This is an inexcusable slap in the face of American workers and taxpayers. And people wonder why blue-collar workers support Trump?
The real lesson is that government has no place in choosing winners and losers in private enterprise. There are many reasons that a company would choose to manufacture in China rather than the U.S., including government intrusion and unreasonable taxes and regulations. But the bailout should be seen as a gigantic con and a failure, never to be repeated.
Source: breitbart.com
Thank that$#%&!@*in the whitehouse he used taxpayers money to bail out GM and we get paid back by manufacturing off shore thanks Oscumbama
Balsphermy!
Then the car company should have to pay it back
Thats why i own FORD vehicles!