Comments on: GM May Use Bailout Money to Create Jobs in China

By: Reversals of Fortune: a 2008 retrospective, part III

Reversals of Fortune: a 2008 retrospective, part III — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:45:53 +0000

[...] American plants that employ American auto workers, GM’s aggressive investment in China (thus giving thousands of auto industry jobs to Chinese citizens, while simultaneously claiming that America needs this bailout to save American jobs), and the fact [...]

By: buzzcowboy

buzzcowboy — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:26:01 +0000

Ted Koppel actually covered the GM plant in China in his documentary series (The People’s Republic of China) – interesting stuff.

I wonder, if the cars made for China were made here in the U.S., would that replace the jobs that will be lost if this bailout isn’t approved?

http://blog.cafepress.com/?p=2013

Dunno. But it’s food for thought.

By: Like a Rock. Only poorer.

Like a Rock. Only poorer. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:37:29 +0000

[...] While this isn’t an unprecedented move – Chrysler requested and received a $1 billion government bailout in 1979 – given the questions surrounding the efficacy of the Chrysler bailout, the state of the American economy as a whole, the fact that the taxpayers just bailed out a bunch of banks, GM CEO Richard Wagoner’s salary increase this year despite GM’s losses since 2005, the fact that Honda and Toyota have managed to keep their businesses going and maintain American plants that employ American auto workers, GM’s aggressive investment in China (thus giving thousands of auto industry jobs to Chinese citizens, while simultaneously claiming that America needs this bailout to save American jobs), and the fact that the American auto industry has spent the past decade proudly and churlishly churning out SUV’s and making no effort toward smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles in spite of a global oil shortage and a war in the Middle East… [...]

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:22:44 +0000

Even if they send jobs to china it is the difference between 10,000 people getting fired and 50,000-100,000 people getting fired. Believe me I’m all for letting them fail, good business has not been practiced in these large company’s in a long time. The reality is though that even if they send jobs to china the supplier base that provides parts for cars is the same whether it be in China, Europe or the US. If the company goes under all of these companies will fail as well. I’m not talking about all three auto manufacturers needing to go under to make this happen either. With the current state of the economy all it will take is one. And if you add those numbers up, my company make a part on some vehicles. If you figure conservatively there are 500 parts on a car not made by the car company, we have approximately 1000 employees, there is 500,000 people right there that may loose there jobs. That is just taking into account one vehicle.

By: Jason Green

Jason Green — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:34:54 +0000

It’s only “public” in the fact that the shares are traded on the open stock market. It’s still considered a private company because it’s not owned by the government. Very different concepts.

And, yes, they already received part of a $25 billion bailout a month ago as part of the budget bill (prior to the $700 billion bailout for the banks).

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:19:24 +0000

Get your facts straight – GM is not a private company it is a public company and so far no bailout has been provided to the automotive companies