For all the flat-earthers out there who are still saying, what the hey, I don’t work for an American auto company, and I drive a Toyota anyhow, (and I include the Republican Senators from Dixieland who consider their constituents to be the Japanese car assembly plants in their states), this world is too complex for your simplistic responses.
If GM and Chrysler go under, the silly analogy of a hurricane created by a butterfly’s wings on the other side of the world will be small change. The big 3 going down will take with them not only tens of thousands of jobs in their factories, but also many hundreds of thousands of jobs among their suppliers. Many hundreds of thousands of these are in the USA, but many more are in Europe and in Mexico.
The moronic fence being put up on our southern border won’t do squat if a quarter million of their highly paid (by Mexican standards anyway) workers are put out of work by our mess. They are going to prefer their chances here rather than in Mexico of finding decent paying work, and who could blame them?
