Jack,
Sent to me by a friend who knew that I had spent almost 40 years with ACDELCO Sales and my interest in the overall industry. I just hope that someone wakes up regarding "offshore" manufacturing before it's too damn late!
Note in the video that the vendors to Ford are involved in the assembly of Ford's product.
Best to all!
Alex Gray
Watch This Video: http://overthehillcarpeople.com/fordbrazilplant.htm
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The U.S. better look to the into the next decades and start fix'n the present if we ever expect be remain a world leader in Manufacturing.... And the profits from the sale of the Brazilian Ford vehicles is being spread thin....... Ford Motor Company Stock is sold world wide..... Our children need those future jobs - NOW!.....
If you compared how many manufacturing companies there were in the United States in 1950 with how many there are now (Including machine shops, engine manufactures, farm implement and machinery manufactures, tool and die makers, appliance and electronic components, heavy equipment and construction equipment, just to name a few) , you would see the major decline in every facet of our industrial capacity.
Even our firearms manufacturing, small weapons and large weapons are being out-sourced or bought directly from foreign manufactures.
We are almost a total service nation not producing anything but paper and hamburgers. A few more years of this and our GNP will be one bushel of corn and a dozen eggs. You want fries with that? It gets worse by the day with our do nothing right Congress and our greedy earmarking politicians.
When will this Country ever learn, no wonder there are no jobs to be had here; Well at least manufacturing ones. We ran the steel industry out of Pittsburgh and other parts; Now it appears the automobile industry will leave as well. And Ford Motors is a born, bred an brought, up child of America.
Watch this video clip of a New FORD Assembly Plant in Brazil and be amazed. One look and each of you will instantly be able to tell what is wrong with the manufacturing plants of the US car makers and why
there will probably never be another one built in the United States. It will also point out why more will go offshore. It looks as if we are cutting our own throats.
The UAW ain't gonna like this, but it looks like the future of
Ford's production is going to be more machine and less person.
Click Here: http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189
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