Bye-Bye US Tax dollars

[SuperScout]

General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations -- Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program = our tax dollars.


SAO PAULO -- General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.

According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to "complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012. It wouldn't be logical to withdraw the investment from where we're growing, and our goal is to protect investments in emerging markets," he said in a statement published by the business daily Gazeta Mercantil.

Meanwhile, he cut the company's revenue forecast for this year by 14% to $9.5 billion from $11 billion, as the economic crisis began to cause rapid slowdowns in sales. GM already announced three programs of paid leave, and Ardila added that GM Brazil "is going to wait and see how the market behaves in order to know what decision to take" with regard to possible layoffs.

For Ardila, the injection in Brazil's automobile sector of 8 billion reais ($3.51 billion) recently announced by the federal and state governments of Sao Paulo "has already begun to revive sales," which fell by 12% in October. The executive said that the company will operate a "conservative" scenario in 2009 with an estimated production of 2.6 million units, and another more "optimistic" that contemplates sales of 2.9 million.

This year sales will reach 2.85 million vehicles, which represents a growth of 15% over last year.

So, somebody needs to tell the United Auto Workers that they have just been bent over by Obama. Talk about cross-cultural stimulus: American workers get screwed, and Brazilian workers enjoy it.

[39mto39g]

I would guess the biggest reason UAW, Toyota can make it here in the right to work states, so can GM, Just get rid of the UAW. But then auto workers would have to actually work for there salary.

Ron

[SuperScout]

Originally Posted by 39mto39g

I would guess the biggest reason UAW, Toyota can make it here in the right to work states, so can GM, Just get rid of the UAW. But then auto workers would have to actually work for there salary.

Ron

What a concept! Actual work for an actual paycheck!