[timmac]

This is fascinating. If you watch, listen to the very last couple of sentences.

This is a short video of a new Ford plant in Brazil. One look at this and you will be able to understand why there will probably never be another assembly plant built in the USA. It will also point out why more assembly plants will go offshore.

After watching this video, you won't doubt that Ford, GM, and Chrysler are destined to close plants in the United States. They will survive, but their assembly operations in the U.S. Likely won't; whether we have provided a bailout or not (listen closely at the end for the reason why).

Watch the video, then pass it on!

http://apps.detnews.com/apps/multimedia/player/index.php?id=1189


And we wonder where the jobs go. This should help with the explanation!!!!!

[Lore]

Yeah, you get a lot done with full automation and a $12,000 a year worker down there. They forgot to mention that part in the film.

[copious.abundance]

Oh please. If you think they don't have unions in Brazil, you're kidding yourself.

Hint: The current and last president of Brazil belong to the Worker's Party.

Here's a tour of Ford's Rogue River plant in Dearborn, where they make pickup trucks. The announcer is rather annoying, but interesting tour anyway:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cvHDdY0S0

[Sixstrings]

And we wonder where the jobs go. This should help with the explanation!!!!!

Maybe one day the People will wake up and vote for a nice big fat tariff on stuff coming in from Brazil. And China too. That would bring the jobs back in a hurry, if we actually had to start making the stuff we consume rather than just exporting inflation and ponzi schemes.