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Canada Spends Big to Save GM, So Why Not Mexico?

TIME -- At time when the U.S. and Canada are pouring tens of billions of dollars into General Motors Corp. to give the bankrupt automaker a new lease on life, why is Mexico flying under the radar?

Last month when Washington and Ottawa pledged to invest $60 billion in Detroit's biggest car company, Mexico — a partner in NAFTA and an integrated North-American auto industry — was conspicuous by its absence at the negotiating table.

That's more than a little surprising when you consider that Mexico has overtaken Canada in production of GM vehicles, making such popular name plates as the Chevy Silverado and Suburban. Last year GM made a total of 504,858 vehicles at four assembly plants in Mexico; that's 9% higher than the 463,869 cars and light trucks produced by GM Canada.



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Submitted Jul 04, 2009 By: JOHNNY95206
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Veteran Author Oregon

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I agree w/ roadkillga! You are very wise.
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Champion Author Wisconsin

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MEXICO TRUELY MUST BE A COUNTRY OF "TAKERS"---NOT "GIVERS" !!!!!
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Champion Author Pennsylvania

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Mexico is too busy spending money on pamphlets telling their citizens how to sneak into the US to be bothered helping out GM.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:35:16 PM

They build Fords and VWs in Mexico - they don't need GM
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:35:03 PM

NAFTA-really should be SJTOC-send jobs to other countries, creating jobless prospects. Thanks to slick Willie.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:33:26 PM

Let Canada spend their money on GM. Mexico was smart being absent from anything to do with GM.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:29:29 PM

Good luck Canada.
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Champion Author Winston-Salem

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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:28:08 PM

You think Mexico has money???~!!!
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Veteran Author Illinois

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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:26:20 PM

Umm, because most GM plants are in Canada.

[Edited by: ruc2827 at 7/4/2009 2:26:34 PM EST]
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Veteran Author Georgia

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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:25:52 PM

GM Mexico has consistently beaten the U.S. in quality ever since 1990 when I visited Ramos Arizpe Assembly Plant. Take a not so modern plant, train local workforce, keep things simple by not automating just for technologies sake, and voila...consistently the leader in quality production. Hats off to all the hard-working and very intelligent Mexican workforce. Now why would they even want to invest in GM's U.S. auto industry? there's no reason to...from their perspective. Just my thoughts...
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:23:50 PM

Well, with the good old "Cap and Trade (Tax)" initiative, more and more corporate ventures will move north and south out of the USA. It just doesn't make sense to pay more when you can get more for less elsewhere. Too bad the HO administration is too naive to "get it".
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:22:12 PM

nojsts I wish you try that out with all your Chinese purchases.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:22:11 PM

Mexico only "gives" illegal aliens.

[Edited by: MustangKen at 7/4/2009 2:22:42 PM EST]
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The govt should remember this down the line. Move all production back to US and Canada
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:18:52 PM

Do not buy anything made in Mexico.
If these companies want to make their products in mexice then let the mexicans buy them.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:17:25 PM

money can not save GM, but themself
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:16:08 PM

Good question, unless they have no stilts to prop it up.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:13:34 PM

Let's see if Mexico's policy will be shortsighted in a few years. I think it will be.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:13:17 PM

Buy quality.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:11:27 PM

Mexico doesn't do anything for anybody except themselves.They love to take but never give.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:10:29 PM

Sounds just like Mexico.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:07:34 PM

Government Motors should be returned to private owners ASAP.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:06:45 PM

It's called the selling out of America for the almight buck. If it's not China then it's some other country and I think it boarders on treason!!!
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:06:07 PM

Mexico wants everything?? Mexicans are doing the most to help GM: purchasing GM vehicles!
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:03:37 PM

It's not about Mexican government spending to save GM, it's about cutting taxes so the business can thrive without this huge penalty.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:02:01 PM

Mexico wants everything. Not a good sign of cooperation. Maybe GM should close those plants.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 2:01:46 PM

Since we - the American public - won't buy the crappy cars from GM and Chrysler, the government will take our tax money and give it to them, instead and reward them for the terrible job they are doing.

If you want to buy American, buy Ford, Honda, Toyota, and Nissan cars. They all produce cars in the US. All you have to do is check if the first digit of the VIN is the number 1 - that means the car or truck was made in the US. Don't buy GM or Chrysler and reward them for stealing our money when they could not earn it by building decent cars at a decent price.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:57:11 PM

Tomorrow I'll stiill be asking myself, "How was I supposed to know?"
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:51:46 PM

support republican senators attempt to divest the government of owning GM. Senators Thune and Demint are both trying to introduce legislation.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:49:02 PM

They may still follow suit.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:40:43 PM

I guess I will have to keep paying for crap I will never buy
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Move those jobs up here to stimulte OUR economy..
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:38:41 PM

If Mexico put in with the rest of them we would be getting our own money back.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:35:47 PM

MAYBE THEY WILL NATIONALIZE GM IN MEXICO.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:34:51 PM

IF they don't want to help then lets then close those plants. Buy America is what is going to save us and we really need to look at this.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:34:50 PM

They are profitable because "GM ... managed to keep the cost of production south of the California and Texas borders at Third World levels, thanks largely to Mexico's weak unions" Go figure. Interesting that TIME would choose to use the adjectives 'Third World' and 'weak' to describe these unions that actually allow their companies to make money. But then, consider the source.
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:34:31 PM

mexico is smart enough to keep their money. also , do they have any money to give?
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Mexico just wanted to let us pay for them
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Then close the Mexican plants.. Move the jobs back to the US. Seems like the right thing to do.
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Mexico makes more from drug sales.
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Mexican government went with the "let them fall policy."

[Edited by: UncleCurt at 7/4/2009 1:28:54 PM EST]
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:28:07 PM

Why should Mexico contribute? They are used to getting for nothing. Why change that?
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YOu'd think that the Mexican Government would kick in a little to help GM.
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Go figure Mexico not helping GM or the USA they get everything giving to them why give back
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No one thinks of Mexico . . . . or is it that the US is now a state of Mexico?
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Message Posted: Jul 4, 2009 1:19:12 PM

Go Canada
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