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- by fxjamusa May 16, 2009 8:21 PM PDT
- You forgot to mention another important statistic that they intentionally overlooked. Despite their staggering profit and revenue numbers, they have outsourced thousands of jobs overseas. Hope this decision comes back to haunt them.
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- by knowles2 May 18, 2009 10:18 AM PDT
- They made a sensible choice, move people and manufactoring and development people to where the markets are new fresh and developing, which is not USA but china, and India.
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(3 Comments)This is the reason why America car industry is in such dire straights, it relied far to heavily on what is a saturated market while fail to expand overseas into markets where there hundreds of milllions of customers with out cars an they fail to build cars for these marks.
We live in a global society jobs will go where there is new customers and bigger demands which is not the US. Until there are no more new markets.