John Deere moving jobs to Mexico????

INTERNATIONAL THINKING AT ITS BEST!

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess

with an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French tunnel,

driving a German car

with a Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian who was drunk

on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)

followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,

on Japanese motorcycles;

treated by an American doctor,

using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by an American.

using Bill Gates's technology,

and you're probably reading this on your computer,

that uses Taiwanese chips.

and a Korean monitor,

assembled by Bangladeshi workers
in a Singapore plant,

transported by Indian lorry-drivers,

hijacked by Indonesians,

unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....

That, my friends, is Globalization!!

Duane W.

And now us if we continue to be apathetic and fail in our vigilance.

From traveling to Mexico many times I can tell you that there are plenty of people left in the major cities to work in the factories. Now, in the rural small towns it's a different story. I've been in some small towns in the state of Michoacan and all you see is women and elderly people and of course small children. Most working age males are in the U.S working.

A frequently asked question: If Mexicans here only earn minimum wages, how can they send $15 billion to Mexico every year? Well, when you figure that there are probably about 20 million people sending money to families in Mexico, that would amount to $750. each, if my figuring is correct. Then when you figure most Mexican males living in the states, live with several others in apartments, rent is cheap. Their eating habits usually consist of beans, tortillas, rice, cheaper cuts of meat and of course beer. When most Mexicans come here it is for the purpose of helping their poor families back home. But, this thinking doesn't always last for long. They soon learn the American way of life and the temptations overwhelm them. By that time younger brothers have made their way to the U.S. to keep the dollars flowing back to Mexico. Don't worry Mexico and Central America have plenty of hands to send here for those so called jobs Americans won't do, and soon to be, jobs that Americans did, when they paid a decent wage. Dick

You can't have good old-time US manufacturing in a (gag) "global economy", where the object is to allow businesses to exploit this or that foreign country's underpaid impoverished workers in order to produce their products at the lowest prices to maximize profits for their stockholders.

Do we sell/export enough manufactured goods to make it worth while to allow the imported, or partly imported, items to come in and compete? I think not. Do we want to retreat from this globalism horror and, through protective tariffs, get back to quality manufacturing by our own people? It would mean higher prices for us, but that would be ameliorated by US wages to US workers, who are the bulk of the purchasers, anyway.

Do we really want to keep on "globalizing" until everything we buy is from Communist China, and all our US dollars end up there? Ask the consumer, whether union member or not, whether he would be happy to buy US-made VCRs at $1,500.00 a pop instead of the $89.85 Chinese jobs at Wal-Mart.

I didn't intend to get you guys going so, but I got my own dander up again, so I shouldn't complain.

Shocked

And Mexico is complaining about jobs going to China or India or overseas somewhere.

It is a world economy you know. If we buy something made in USA is that United States of America or Usa Japan?

Moving jobs to Mexico is nothing new. This has been happening for years and it wouldn't surprise me if JD is joining the deportation of jobs to Mexico. JD already has plants in Mexico where they build tractors for use in Mexico. Most likely, many of the parts used here in the U.S. are made in Mexico too. Why do you suppose that is? Cheap labor.
Now our President wants to legalize the millions of illegal immigrants who are here in the U.S. We should all be outraged with his idea. First it will be legalize 6 to 10 million, then it will be to allow them to bring their families here to live with them. This is how it went in 1986 and I'm confident it will happen again if Congress allows this to happen. The Presidents proposal will also lower wages even more than they are now. We should all be outraged and we all need to call our people in Congress and voice our opposition to the Presidents proposal.
Dick

Lifetime deportation for criminal acts committed by the illegal and soon to be legal persons would at least reduce the number of riff raff. Too bad they don't export criminals from here. They are not even escorted to an airplane when released form prison.

Foreign criminals fleeing persecution show up here with their passports in the airplane toilet. Say "refuge" and they are automatically entitled to welfare, medical and legal aid. Burdens our country with career criminals and tarnishes the image of the true refugee persons.

Wages are too high in the USA to sustain production here, so jobs are exported. But we should support a system that promotes even higher wages here? This will hasten job loss, & be bad for us.

Pretty funny that you want it both ways. Can't be.

--->Paul

So what your saying the F250/350 made in the Kentucky plant should be higher than the F250/350 made at the Mexico plant because Americans make so much more in wages and Mexicans make less in wages?

If that were true then why does both thrucks sell for the same $35,000 price?

The one in Mexico is made with cheap labor thefor it should cost less!

It's called corperate GREED!

And yes when I ordered my new 2k2 F350 I specified it had to be a Kentucky plant made truck or no sale!

T_Bone

America also has very stiff environmental (EPA) and worker safety laws (OSHA) which costs manufacturers plenty and those costs have to be passed along. Most other countries don't even come close.

If Ford didn't also build that vehicle in Mexico your cost would have been much higher. It is still very competitive and a combination of cost control, quality, reliability, and inovation must dominate in order to survive.

Had the front brake rotor off the other day to grease the front wheel bearings and you ain't gonna believe this..... ..... ..GM was stamped on the inside of it (it's a casting with the GM logo)

I had heard that GM and Chrysler get their chassis from the same supplier..... ...course look at a Dodge chassis and a Chevy and they are apples and oranges..... ....ok which is the orange?

Mark
Huh.

Yes thats true but my 76 Dodge Power Wagon also had mexico parts in it. Atleast most of the truck was assymbled here in the States. Had it been Assymbled in Mexico then it would have been approx 90% Mexican.

For what it worth 60 mintues had a deal on TV awhile back that stated products that stated "made in China" were made from convic's inslaved from the gov't and most were innocent of there charges.

T_Bone