Are Our Tax Dollars Building the Economy of ... Mexico?

For all those folks in Michigan who were pushing so hard for a bail out of GM and Chrysler because they were worried about their jobs - you can sit back and collect those unemployment checks and wonder what happened. We were all told that a bail out of the big two car companies was necessary since the country could not remain solvent under the onslaught of more layoffs if GM and Chrysler went out of business.

The American people were also told that the environment would be saved by Chrysler building the newest and most innovative 'green' car for the roads of America - the Fiat. As a reminder, our government and the United Auto Workers own a majority of the stock in both companies.

And what decisions have been made by the government and the UAW to protect the workers of America? According to the Wall Street Journal, Chrysler is going to be using our tax dollars - that helped to bail them out - to build Fiats...in Mexico, employing Mexican people. Granted Chrysler's infusion of our tax dollars was called a 'bail out' not a 'stimulus' but what the heck is going on here? I think it is called lying to get control and then doing what you want after that. Sounds like health care reform.

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Personally I believe a company should build it's product anywhere it wants to, whether domestically or in a foreign country, to maximize profits. What I don't believe in is our government going into partnership with a union, selling themselves as protecting American auto workers, and doing whatever else it takes to gain control of private businesses.