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Originally Posted by 88Z-Man
It seems we can't make anything for ourselves anymore.
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we can, but people have it in their heads that american products are **** and foreign products FTW. our economy has suffered because of it. other side effects include unemployment. and the funny thing about those unemployment statistics is that once unemployment runs out, they don't list you as unemployed anymore. so those 5% national unemployed figures are garbage. it's more like 20%. and let's not discuss those who've had to learn another trade or skill in order to work somewhere other than the plant that shut down, or the fact that they can't make the wages they once did, and they got in on one of those sub-prime loans to get into a house that they really couldn't afford, which is why foreclosures are up 93% in the last year...
it's so much more than where the car is assembled or where the money ends up at the end of the line. parts content must be listed on new cars, so run over to a new car dealer on a sunday and take a gander at how much of the new cars are made with foreign parts, because we can't compete in that market. pretty soon we won't be able to compete in any market, because even the sales and support divisions can be farmed out to places like India.