Plus we have that small issue of no one wants to work. Everywhere is hiring yet they can’t fill the position. Even if we did make all the parts here we would still be in the same position.
Have they tried offering even LESS money?
Failing that, how about offering more money?
I mean, a plastic part that's blow-molded on a machine line. How much labor does that take? 20 seconds? Packing it? 1 minute?
And they sell them, for example a headlight assembly for a Challenger, at what, 800 dollars?
I don't think paying people even 40 dollars an hour is going to dramatically impact their vaunted profits.
If the total labor involvement was an HOUR, which it may or may not be, how will 40 bucks cripple Stellantis on an 800 dollar part?
The point isn't to just maximize profits, it is to destroy the American working class and make them all welfare slaves.
Think of the labor putting together a Hellcat engine, for an example.
Even at 100 dollars per hour, how much labor would be added at 16 hours, total? 1600 dollars.
ON a 15,000 dollar engine. The parts do not cost 10,000 dollars to produce.
The problem is lack of tariffs and protection of the American working class, coupled with unlimited capitalist greed.
"But I can't compete"
Oh, yes you can, if EVERYONE is put on a level playing field in the USA. It's like the old race car drivers that commented that they can't put proper roll cages in F1 cars because then the cars would not be competitive. If every single car had a roll cage, how is that a disadvantage?
Remove all taxes on all items produced entirely in the USA, charge 10X the value in tariffs for stuff made anywhere else, et voila! Manufacturing returns to the USA and we don't care HOW much ships get parked offshore by a hostile government. Factories would be spring up like shade trees, all over the USA.
