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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
They wouldn't. Their own citizens can't afford the products they make.
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and with the huge discounts they receive to import their goods here, they wouldn't ever stop importing. the trade market between our country and others is way off. we should be adding tariffs to their goods, not discounting them. and while some of the smart ones have factories inside the US where final assembly takes place, that's all well and good because it provides jobs. they save on transportation (of the final assembly) but because of the 90% of parts to make the final assembly are made in another country, they are able to remain competitive with native assemblies. a perfect example is the TV that justin gave the link to: they import all of the parts and assemble the thing here. so while it has the tag of "Made in the US", most, if not all, of its parts come from somewhere else. there is no way to compete with the labor rate in other countries; the reason why their parts are so cheap to buy and bring here for final assembly.
anyway, to get back to the OP, i firmly believe in buying GM or Ford and considering Chrysler (we own a jeep). i was brought up in a pro-US, pro-union (racist) house. my father owned pontiacs and fords and my grandfather only owned pontiacs (and one Indian motorcycle, before he met my grandmother). while i have shed some of the less-politically-correct behavior and speech (talk of ******s, spooks, degoes/whops, jews/kikes, and polocks was regular dinner conversation), i still firmly believe in US products and unions. i would never buy a japanese car, whether built in the US or not. buying a japanese car means one more US family goes without dinner.