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Bummer, Chinese Commies Buy HUMMER

China Firm to Buy Hummer - WSJ.com

In another body slam to American pride the Chinese Communists are buying Hummer from the once venerable GM. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. is the company that is reported to be buying the Hummer brand.

Bad enough to lose Hummer to the Communists but which has s lineage to the military vehicle known as the Humvee.

Supposedly the Commnists will leave two US plants open but let's face how shamefull that Communists are buying Hummer.

I am officially disgusted !! Thank all of you who buy foreign car!! Way to go!!

I am sure the workers for Toyota, BMW, and Hummer are thanking people for buying foreign cars!
 
Cool - While we are weaning ourselves off of Arab oil, let the damn Chinese get addicted to it. LOL.
 
F107, yes, those companies were smart to build SUVs. It made economic sense and reaped them huge profits. However, they did not have a contingency plan in case oil prices went up. They did, and they had no alternatives. Now they're slow in transforming their lineup to get better fuel efficiency.

Also, the UAW chokes American auto manufacturers. Bankruptcy may be the only way to get the leach off of the industry. The UAW is another hindrance to innovation and efficiency.

American Auto Companies have plenty of small fuel efficient cars in their line up. However that is not the kinds of cars that people go to American car companies to purchase. It's about image. American car companies are more known for trucks and luxury cars, not sub compacts, even though they have nice small cars in their line up. A similar concept in motorcycles. People don't go to the Harley Davidson showroom to buy cafe racer style motorcycles, they want highway cruisers and "biker" bikes.
 
So, where is the money going that the chinese are paying for the hummer brand? Do we let the Obama administration squander that money too?
What about the other brands being sold? It's time to take a stand against
Obama's administration and the criminals he brought to Washington with him.
While we're at it we need to get rid of Pelosi, Reid and Frank! It's been nothing but a grab for money since January. I am flabbergasted, that people seem to forget the lies told by Obama, Pelosi and Frank.
 
So Hummers are now made in China. Along with everything else.

Gee, so much has changed.
 
Meh.

I get most of my hummers from Chinese women at the local "Massage" parlor as as it is.


Edit: I guess its kind of odd to think of them paying for hummers when they normally get paid for them.
 
Frankly I don't think Hummer is that big a prize. They had become glorified Sububans anyhow.
 
I look forward to the new Wal-Mart Auto Sales branch.....
 
A blow to American pride?

That's funny. What is there to be proud about when it comes to the Hummer? It had incredibly poor gas mileage even after it's 3rd generation. To my knowledge it was bought mostly by city dwellers and were shown to be impractical for city life. It became even MORE impractical during the early 2000s when gas prices sky rocketed. And finally could barely fit in a normal street lane. What exatcly was there to be proud about?

I'm sure everyone here will agree that to be proud of something it has to actually have some redeeming quality about it to upset all it's faults. What kind of redeeming quality did the hummer have? It failed because it was pandering to that greedy American consumerism and it's creators completely failed to factor in the normal drops in the economy.

I mean if you were a weapons maker would you be proud of a gun line which is shown as impractical to the everyday consumer? I'm sure there's a ton of gun owners that want to buy tanks but really - what are you supposed to do with a tank when you need extensive military training to drive it and operate it's weapons correctly?

As far as I'm concerned the Chinese can have the Hummer line. Let them try to navigate a car that the average height Asian man will probably have trouble getting into.

They didn't buy the brand to sell Hummers to the "Asian man " who "will probably have trouble getting into" it.
 
Dont be ticked off at the folks buying cars. You should be ticked at the UAW, for bleeding these companies dry. Paying folks not to work?

Let me know when that turns a profit instead of a loss.

Also, the whole "your not a patriot, if your not buying American", is a little on the :rofl side.

The big three made their deal with the UAW in terms of a manufacturere buying a commodity and that commodity was labor. Did labor act overreach at tie ? Yes. Did the Big 3 let them ? Yes.
 
I take it ALL your products that you buy are American then? Have you checked your clothes, electronics, food, etc to see where it is coming from?

The amount of money people spend on foreign cars pales in comparison to the money they spend on other foreign products.

I'm not phased by China getting Hummer, I'd be more worried about all the other products people are buying.

I would like to buy all American but that is not possible as you well know. I have been ticked off about all those products being imported from foreign countries long before anyone else worried about.

I was concerned that we have lost classes of industries. We "invented" the microwave oven - AMANA RADAR - was the brand name of the first one. We lost that entire industry. We lost the TV manufacturing and all of electronics.
Yes we made the Mcintosh sterio for a while but that was a micro-mini market.

We just kept losing entire classes of industries. The connection to the Chinese for losing our manufacyuring was statrted by Bush senior. I am not being partisan here because Bubba Liffic just stepped right along where Papa Bush left off.

We are heading to second a 2nd world country like the old former European powers. The next step is 3rd world.
 
Nations like the United States and China don't turn on a dime, you have to look not at where they were but where the head of the snake in moving to. And over the past few decades China has been steadily moving toward capitalism, while U.S. - not so much.

At some point we'll have to stop calling them commies.

And at some point they may start using that name on us.

:(


What China is developing oward is state owned/sttae controlled capitalism. You are partially correct in that with baleouts and buy ins and price supports we are taking on elements of state controlled capitalism.

The Chinese have cheap natural resources it's called workers.
 
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So as I understand this, GM got rid of an unprofitable line, but without costing any jobs in the US. Sounds like a win win situation.
 
Isn't Hummers how our army travels around? The chinese are going to be making those?
 
Frankly I don't think Hummer is that big a prize. They had become glorified Sububans anyhow.

I know ! those 'Sububans' are so obsoeete !!!! lol

ps I misspell and forget letters also but that struck me funny!!
 
Isn't Hummers how our army travels around? The chinese are going to be making those?

The military uses HMVEES the Hummer is the civilian version. Well if the CHICOMS own the Hummer that must mean that the HMVEE is part of the deal so we will ahve to buy HMVEES for our military from the CHI-COMS !

If anyone has any info to the cantrary please post it.

We are losing out industrial base guys and this is not funny. It's not that I don't like the Chinese ( well I am not a Commie fan ) but I don't want my country being knocked down.

Just when you GET YOUR HANDS ON A TOYOTA you are driving a nail into your coffin.
 
China Firm to Buy Hummer - WSJ.com

In another body slam to American pride the Chinese Communists are buying Hummer from the once venerable GM. Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. is the company that is reported to be buying the Hummer brand.

Bad enough to lose Hummer to the Communists but which has s lineage to the military vehicle known as the Humvee.

Supposedly the Commnists will leave two US plants open but let's face how shamefull that Communists are buying Hummer.

I am officially disgusted !! Thank all of you who buy foreign car!! Way to go!!

OMG no body tell Jallman!
 
So as I understand this, GM got rid of an unprofitable line, but without costing any jobs in the US. Sounds like a win win situation.

Even if we did lose the jobs of the people who make Hummers, who cares? Jobs that are overpaid producing things that people don't want are worthless jobs and it would be better that those people find better jobs.

The goal of our economy is efficiency and an increased standard of living.
 
How dare those ****ing communist bastards offer an American car company more money than any company based in America or another non-communist country!

Shame on them for offering GM the best deal available, and shame on GM for operating like a business and selling their product to the highest bidder. What they should have done is turn down the financially optimal solution and made a crappy decision for the sake of political posturing.

Right?
 
How dare those ****ing communist bastards offer an American car company more money than any company based in America or another non-communist country!

Shame on them for offering GM the best deal available, and shame on GM for operating like a business and selling their product to the highest bidder. What they should have done is turn down the financially optimal solution and made a crappy decision for the sake of political posturing.

Right?

I suppose were are supposed to embrace a free market system, but not extend it outside our borders, while simultaneously artifically increasing the value of labor domestically through unions. Smells like a recipe for economic success.....
 
I suppose were are supposed to embrace a free market system, but not extend it outside our borders, while simultaneously artifically increasing the value of labor domestically through unions. Smells like a recipe for economic success.....

Well it worked so well when we instituted Smoot-Hawley.
 
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