Final Numbers are in.....

[malorn]

The final US trade numbers are now in for 2007.

Top five trading partners for motorvehicles and parts:
Imports Exports Surplus/Deficit
Canada: $65,911,000,000...$60,425,000,000...$5,486,000,000 ,000
Mexico: $49,940,000,000...$19,192,000,000...$30,748,000,00 0
Germany: $24,654,000,000..$8,881,000,000....$15,773,000,000
Korea: $11,926,000,000......$1,014,000,000....$10,912,000 ,000
Japan: $55,211,000,000....$2,314,000,000.....$52,897,000, 000

So much for moving us(US)forward. I am sure the us is meant to reinforce the moving the US forward. Lexus=Luxury, replace u with e, replace r with s and drop the y.

[DaveinOlyWA]

GM loss for FY 2007....

THIRTY EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS

[malorn]

Originally Posted by DaveinOlyWA

GM loss for FY 2007....

THIRTY EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS

Let's see did that help you and your family or hurt you and your family? Does it help your real wages when GM replaces UAW members with lower paid workers? What about your kids and their kids. Tell me what you think. The trade imbalance is $2 billion dollars a day.

[DaveinOlyWA]

ok

we can

1) add lower paid american workers

or

2)continue to fund a foreign company who is paying american workers to make their products


well, i CAN NOT AFFORD option #1 because i am already one of those lower paid american workers

[hyo silver]

I understand the implications for the US economy are not good. But, we have every right to choose the vehicle that best fits our needs, and obviously that tends not to be an American vehicle. The cumulative result of all those individual car-buying decisions is reflected in the trade imbalance. How do we solve that? Do we keep people from buying Japanese cars? Cancel Free Trade? Nothing personal, Malorn, but the general perception is that GM does not make the best cars. To be tactful, their fearless leader isn't looking too good in the press, either.

[DaveinOlyWA]

what malorn wants us to do is continue to buy poorly designed, overpriced, american made products hampered by poor leadership, overwhelming labor costs with an obvious lack of R & D dollars...

while paying an IDIOT an enormous amount of money to continously make idiotic statements thinking he can feed americans a line of BS just as his predecessors have done in the past and get away with it

well, the coffee is done and being served and guess who did not get a cup...

[malorn]

Originally Posted by hyo silver

I understand the implications for the US economy are not good. But, we have every right to choose the vehicle that best fits our needs, and obviously that tends not to be an American vehicle. The cumulative result of all those individual car-buying decisions is reflected in the trade imbalance. How do we solve that? Do we keep people from buying Japanese cars? Cancel Free Trade? Nothing personal, Malorn, but the general perception is that GM does not make the best cars. To be tactful, their fearless leader isn't looking too good in the press, either.

When the United States trade imbalance is $2,000,000,000 a day can you really call that free trade? Do you think there is some dumping involved, government support, outright lying cheating, stealing and payoffs? Check out the countries we have a trade surplus with and I think you might think differently.

[malorn]

Originally Posted by malorn

When the United States trade imbalance is $2,000,000,000 a day can you really call that free trade? Do you think there is some dumping involved, government support, outright lying cheating, stealing and payoffs? Check out the countries we have a trade surplus with and I think you might think differently.

The US in 2007 had a trade surplus with the Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Egypt and Argentina. Thats it. Do you wonder why the dollar is falling like a rock, we are borrowing money to sustain ourselves?

[malorn]

Originally Posted by DaveinOlyWA

ok

we can

1) add lower paid american workers

or

2)continue to fund a foreign company who is paying american workers to make their products


well, i CAN NOT AFFORD option #1 because i am already one of those lower paid american workers

And if things continue to go down the current path your real wages will continue to fall. It is just economics.

[Stev0]

Either:

A) Americans want to buy cars that aren't crap, or

Americans are deliberately trying to hurt the economy.

Why, it's obviously B!

(actually, if you're talking about GM executives, the answer really is