# Another Toyota Tundra Commercial Question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-toyota-tundra-commercial-question/645911 "2013-01-03T02:24:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-toyota-tundra-commercial-question/645911/21 "2013-01-04T02:11:18Z")

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[Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/08/12/outsourcer-in-chief-obama-of-general-motors/)

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> We need to look no further than General Motors’ own figures to learn that GM outsources almost two thirds of its jobs overseas. Less than one in five GM vehicles are manufactured in the United States.
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> To be exact: GM’s December 31, 2011 annual report shows General Motors of North America accounting for 98,000 of the 207,000 GM jobs worldwide. But 12,000 of these jobs are in Canada and 11,500 are in Mexico. Accordingly, GM **has 74,500 jobs in the United States and 122,500 abroad** , even after Obama’s touted surge in Detroit jobs. Almost two thirds of GM’s jobs are in other countries.

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**Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-toyota-tundra-commercial-question/645911/22 "2013-01-04T02:26:22Z")

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> [@runner pat](#):
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> [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/08/12/outsourcer-in-chief-obama-of-general-motors/)

So? That includes Holden, Opel, Vauxhall, what was Daewoo (now GM Korea,) Shanghai GM, and SAIC-GM-Wuling. What do all of those have to do with the cars GM builds and sells in the US? Practically fucking nothing. Obama had nothing to do with that and I don’t give a shit what Forbes said.

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