Re: GM to dump Holden
Reply #139 –
So true, Spotted One.
It's unconscionable behaviour Baggers.
Firstly, those corporate decisions like GM's departure take years to put into place and effect. They are usually the consequence of many things including foreign investment carrots from the country that they move into. Typically coming after an election cycle, not some overnight shock decision.
Those pricks took $650M off Australian tax payers having already decided to leave, our politicians are pissweak!
Secondly our politicians, at the moment they bitch and moan about spending $100B on keeping people from going COVID insane and having the joint fall into anarchy. Yet that GM decision shows you how little money really means to the politicians.
If they proactively had spent 1/5th of that $100B on local supply chains we'd still have home grown steel, aluminium, pharmaceutical, technologies, automotive, clean energy, water security, etc., etc.., and decent public transport like fast rail for example. We wouldn't just be digging up shizen only to have China add value and profit from it!
Instead they spent years telling us it's all too expensive, but the lie is exposed now!