GM excuse for ‘offshoring' is cheap

Pundits have valid points about shutting plants that are producing cars not selling enough. However, General Motors’ job was to foresee this happening so all that was needed was a relatively short shutdown to change plants’ manufacturing to different cars or trucks.

With the newer plants, with all the robotics available, this should not be as time consuming or difficult. To use this as an excuse to possibly take manufacture “offshore” — especially if it’s China — is cheap and clueless, at best. I would seriously consider a GM electric vehicle made in the U.S., but never one from China. Shortsighted people will say, “But the profits go to us.” But what about the lost wages and profits from them? Glen Gunter

York, Pa.

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