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Originally Posted by 3.8TransAM
Yes you are incorrect. A vehicle made by an American manufacturer directly benefits 3 Americans with employment. A foreign manufacturer really only employs 1 American. Argue all you want but this is still considered correct to this day in lefty or righty articles. All the ancillary stuff like restaurants, convenience stores and crap will happen regardless. Since those are such high paying in high demand jobs, maybe we should all work there and then wonder why we can't afford a new car.
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You're incorrect, or at least being overly simplistic in a way that's calculated to support your overall argument. Foreign manufacturers build factories here that employ not just line workers, but also engineers to design products and management to run those facilities. I see it all the time in aerospace.
In any event, that's no reason to support UNION employment, only American. Look at all the crap Boeing had to put up with a few years ago when they decided to build their additional 787 line in right to work South Carolina rather than closed shop Washington. Even after their already highly paid SC workforce voted NOT to join the UAW for that site, the UAW got in touch with their government friends at the NLRB and the government sued Boeing anyway, while union sympathizers in the local workforce simultaneously harassed and cajoled their fellow workers in the trenches.
That's the UAW for you: supporting workers' rights, unless workers support the WRONG rights (according to the union; typically rights where the union doesn't get a cut), in which case they're happy to stand against workers - for the sadly mistaken workers' own good, of course, even if they need to insinuate - or worse - a threat or two at those mistaken workers to get them on the bandwagon.