Mitt Romney was labeled a liar when he brought this up in the presidential campaign.
Politifact.com called it the lie of the year,
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep’s parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.
And they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously false.
People often say that politicians don’t pay a price for deception, but this time was different: A flood of negative press coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election.
PolitiFact has selected Romney’s claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China” at the cost of American jobs as the 2012 Lie of the Year.
Now Reuters says Fiat will be producing 100,000 Jeeps in China in 2014.
Jeep is a Chrysler product, 58 percent of which is owned by Fiat – thanks to BHO.
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“Since Fiat helped rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy in 2009, the U.S. No.3 automaker has turned into the main profit driver for the combined group thanks to strong U.S. demand.”
Thanks to President Obama.
I am sure they appreciate that in Turin.
It looks like Thomas Scovill has missed the point of the politifact article. It wasn’t to refute the report that Chrysler was to build Jeeps in China, but that Chrysler was to move its current U.S. production of Jeeps from the U.S. to China, which is completley different.
50,000 Jeeps were sold to China last year. This is more than twice 2011. None of these were made in China. In 2014 China will be able to produce 140,000 Jeeps for sale in China and in other markets, with growth in capacity to as many as 200,000.
Jeep production in North America in recent years has been around 430,000 with a forecast in 2015 to be around 440,000 K.
It seems quite likely that in 2014 or soon thereafter we will fewer workers making Jeeps in North America. Certainly there will be fewer making Jeeps for export.
Maybe your math tells a different story.
PolitiFact has admitted that Romney’s ad only said that Obama had a hand in selling Chrysler to Italians who were going to build Jeeps in China. Not that Fiat was going to move U.S. jobs to China. They try to CYA by saying Romney was implying that U.S. jobs would be moving to China.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/politifact-admits-their-lie-year-literal-truth_696336.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
China is now the biggest market for the sale of new automobiles. All the big players are building factories there so meet the domestic demand in China.
Boeing is building airplanes there, and teaching the Chinese how to build them such that the Chinese are expected to be selling large commercial passenger jets within 10 years.
GE is helping China build 28 brand new nuclear power plants in China to meet their future energy demands. The reactors will be GE’s newest design which has not been built in the USA. GE is teaching them how to build and maintain the plants. India is in talks with the Chinese now so they can get duplicate plants in the future.
GM has multiple factories in China, the Chinese love them some Buicks.
47% of the people in China think this is a good thing.