Yeah, Tony...in a sense they did compete with the world.
BMW decided that building in the USA was the right way to go because if they could get tax breaks and no union to deal with it made more sense financially to do it in the USA.
That's my whole point. Thank you for helping me make it.
Our govt. CAN do something to help bring back jobs. The states have already shown them the way. Unfortunately they seem to be in a Washington D.C. bubble and only know what to do based on who is contributing the most to them.
And by the way..."technology" is not the problem. Cars are still being built by human beings all over the world.
It's DUMB decisions like trying to raise the salary at McDonalds that will get people fired and bring in technology. But that's the service industry and should never be paid that much to begin with.
Look at G.E. They have the world's largest jet engine manufacturing plant...in Brazil.
That COULD be right here in the United States. How many more like that? Thousands.
Our federal govt. (not baby-jesus Obama...but the lifetime politicians in Congress and the Senate) are the ones fucking us.
There are things that WORK...like the car companies all over the Southeastern United States building cars and boosting their local economies.
And then there are things that don't...like Detroit.
Even Stevie Wonder could see it. But yet Washington D.C. just keeps on doing the same thing over and over and over...and expecting a different result.
EDIT: Just saw that GE is building a new jet engine plant in Lafayette, Indiana and it will be the 7th in the last few years joining these towns:Batesville, MS; Auburn, AL; Greenville, SC; Dayton, Ohio; Ellisville, MS; and Asheville, NC
Hmmmm....I wonder what those states have in common with each other that brought these jobs BACK to the U.S. despite all the excuses you just made about technology and blah-blah-blah?
I wonder what it could be...can't quite put my finger on it. All in states and towns that gave them tax breaks and no union.
But I wonder why they came back to the U.S.? It's mystifying...at least to Congress in Washington D.C.
To the rest of us it's crystal clear.