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Buy American Campaign, Insurance Take a Bite Out of Michigan

Bloomberg reports that in the 80s and 90s, Michigan unions and politicians urged U.S. citizens to "Buy American" and told Japanese carmakers to go elsewhere. Today, Ontario is North America's biggest car producer, turning out more cars than Michigan by building for companies including Honda Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. The gap is widening after carmakers announced billions more dollars of plant expansions in Canada's most populous province. Ontario's car factories are within a two-hour drive of the border,and carmakers save about 10% on the cost of each vehicle because of Canada's government-funded health-care program.

Dennis DesRosiers, president of DesRosiers Auto Consultants said "Michigan completely messed up on this. Would you rather go to Ontario, where we like you, or Michigan, where we don't like you?"

Read Michigan Rues 'Buy American' Kick, Loses Car Plants to Ontario from the Amercian Economic Alert

Posted/updated Jun 27, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)