Looks like Michigan is getting the “Chinese” Ford plant Gov. Youngkin scuttled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, please explain why investment in a manufacturing plant that ultimately is US based materials, US workers and US resouces provides a front for the Chinese government.

Please explain how a joint venture with Ford and CATL is NOT a project involving the CCP.
Youngkin was right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATL

[Anonymous]

Losing jobs to own the libs!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Losing jobs to own the libs!

Pretty much this. And it was going to help the poorest and most Republican region of Virginia.

Good job, Youngkin!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

JD Power is total BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

wow, they really have improved. I'm old enough to remember when Hyundais and Kias first came out, and they were joke cars. My BIL had a manual Hyundai back in the lat 80s (early90s?).

I'm actually considering getting a Hyundai EV or PHEV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

JD Power is total BS.

I welcome any other evidence you may have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

JD Power is total BS.

Studies that don't fit my narrative are stupid. LOL

[Anonymous]

While I agree that it's not a good idea to get in bed with China, the only way to get off Chinese reliance is to have our government support businesses here, and regulate more. Yes, I said the dirty R word that Rs hate.

American companies don't care about geopolitics. They are in it for the money, and I'm betting that most of us have money in the stock market, and you don't want your stocks to tank.

So, if you want American companies to not deal with China, then the federal government needs more regulation around dealing with foreign entities.

yep, there's that dirty R word again.

You can't have it both ways - capitalism and no foreign company involvement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Economy thrives under Dem leadership.

Why VA voters fell for the Youngkin BS is beyond me.

After the CCP balloon debacle, I'm happy that Youngkin refused their presence in VA. Good for him.

Dumb take. But you do you.

Dumb post. But you do you.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

JD Power is total BS.

+1

JD Power?

Seriously?? You posted JD Power as support??? OMG

LMFAO.

They have zero credibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GOP posturing against China is so precious. Maybe it made sense in the early 90s, but the ship sailed long ago.

I think you mean the balloons sailed. The fact that any of you would trust Chinese involvement in ANY American industry is so telling. Oh, and precious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ford makes poor quality cars, particularly compared to Toyota and Honda.

It’s not 1992 anymore. Ford is way above Honda.

JD Power is total BS.

+1

JD Power?

Seriously?? You posted JD Power as support??? OMG

LMFAO.

They have zero credibility.

So put something else out there that’s rating car quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Losing jobs to own the libs!

Pretty much this. And it was going to help the poorest and most Republican region of Virginia.

Good job, Youngkin!

Yes, good job, Youngkin. He can attract another industry to the area - without ties to the CCP.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accord to this Detroit News A1 tomorrow, Ford is going to put that battery factory in Marshall, Michigan. And the employees will be Ford employees.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2023/02/09/michigan-marshall-in-play-for-ford-rejected-battery-plant/69886246007/

Firewall.

— Ford battery plant rejected by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin over alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party close to landing in Michigan

— Ford executives met with Calhoun County leaders Wednesday to brief them on details of a multi-billion dollar investment in a battery plant it would build with Chinese-controlled CATL

— could create roughly 2,500 jobs in the region surrounding Marshall, 106 miles west of Detroit

— Ford would own the land and employ the workforce operating the Marshall Township site

Was this the same employment structure that Youngkin rejected or is this new for Michigan? Youngkin made it seem like the employees were going to be on CATL's payroll or staffing agency - not Ford.

Yes.
“The employees of the plant would have been Ford employees. Representatives of Ford and CATL first began visiting the site in the fall.”
https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ford-plant-halted-by-youngkin-would-have-created-2-500-jobs-in-southside/article_9edc230a-95dc-11ed-bdd8-2301b6df2e06.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Economy thrives under Dem leadership.

Why VA voters fell for the Youngkin BS is beyond me.

After the CCP balloon debacle, I'm happy that Youngkin refused their presence in VA. Good for him.

Typed from the CCP Presence in your own home.

DP
Do you have any understanding of the word “context”?