Buy American - Support Yourself

[WinterBorn]

The only one benefitting from the "Buy American" slogan in the car area is the top execs for the big 3 auto makers.

All three of the big american car makers use foriegn parts to build their cars. And almost all foriegn car makers have plants in the US.

 

[WinterBorn]

I agree with you 100% up until the bikes came in, you go look at a new Gold wing for example, it will cost you damn near what a Harley does, different s being is 10 years from now your Harley will be worth more than you paid for it where as the Gold wing would be hard to give away

It depends on what you want in a bike. If you like the big rumble, want to tour a little but mainly ride locally, and (possibly) want to impress certain people, the Harley would be the choice.

If you don't care for the big rumble or loud noise, want to tour a lot, like having luxuries along when you ride, and don't want to spend time learning to repair your bike, the Goldwing would be an excellent choice.

BTW, the above remarks are my opinion and are generalities.

 

[Whomever]

The only one benefitting from the "Buy American" slogan in the car area is the top execs for the big 3 auto makers.

All three of the big american car makers use foriegn parts to build their cars. And almost all foriegn car makers have plants in the US.

The Cadilac Catera is really an Opel. The Pontiac Vibe is really a Toyota.
+ many more examples.

 

[midcan5]

funny, because Toyota should surpass the 'Big' Three in terms of auto production within the US this year.

And is that a good thing? I agree that it helps wages in certain areas and Toyota and others select areas in which they get tax breaks and cheaper labor. Is that a good thing? Do we make our nation a third world nation freely and willingly.

The only one benefitting from the "Buy American" slogan in the car area is the top execs for the big 3 auto makers.

All three of the big american car makers use foriegn parts to build their cars. And almost all foriegn car makers have plants in the US.

And you think all those Americans building cars don't benefit? I agree there is a lot of foreign stuff today, I make an effort to buy made here mostly of American parts.

Does anyone have a clue what Americans will do if manufacturing and design work as well as much of the profit leaves the country? The trade deficit is horrendous now. China will soon own us as we buy their stuff because it is cheap and we refuse to support our own. As with much of life the old ways don't always fit the modern world.

 

[blackascoal]

Isn't that contrary to the economic theories that claim products should be produced where they can be produced the cheapest? Everyone benefits according to these theories. So then ask yourself if I don't have a job, if my skill set has been outsourced, if my wages are now third world wages, how exactly does that theory help me? America was founded on the freedom to work but what if there is no work.

So I want to propose a novel idea, buy American, support yourself. Why? Simply because if the people all across the nation work, then they buy and sell; that is real trickle down, actually we'll rename it trickle around.

Reasons for not buying American are obvious. Nothing is made here anymore. Why is that, mainly because theory says cut off your nose to spite your face and then through magic the nose will heal. We, as a family, have tried for over thirty years to buy American. Our cars are American, as a matter of fact, our new Buick is rated number one in quality. Our bicycles are American, my tools are American. I just bought a screw driver set in Kmart, Craftsman still makes tools here. Shop around.

So do this starting today, ask any business you deal with to purchase American products and tell them clearly that you would sure appreciate it. Buy American made cars, bikes, and whatever you can find. If you call for information, help, or support and a foreign voice answers, tell the company you don't appreciate it. If America loses its industrial base we will soon become a third world nation of the haves and the rest of us. And there is no need for tariffs that cause unnecessary complexity, just do it, buy American. And thanks, as you are supporting me too and of course, you.

Check here http://stillmadeinusa.com/ and http://www.madeinusa.org/ here.

Speak up below, tell the administration to support America.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Postscript: And please don't tell me foreign cars or whatever are better. Our new Buick is number one in quality and all our American cars have been superb machines. People buy foreign because it is cheap, same reason they shop in Walmart. It's not they hate America or hate other American workers, it simply that they are cheap and fail to see the long term implications of their buying decisions.

So buy American, support the nation that enhances the happiness of all.

This is an argument whose time has long since passed.

We are locked into a global economy and many American businesses would not survive without the global market, including the auto companies.

I don't buy Mercedes because it's cheap, I buy it so I don't worry about my wife's car breaking down on her when she travels and I know she's as safe as possible driving it. I buy them because they hold their value and they haven't been broken in until they reach 100,000 miles.

 

[midcan5]

I don't buy Mercedes because it's cheap, I buy it so I don't worry about my wife's car breaking down on her when she travels and I know she's as safe as possible driving it. I buy them because they hold their value and they haven't been broken in until they reach 100,000 miles.

I don't buy that argument for one second and I doubt you do either - to be completely honest with oneself is very hard. BMW is the same pretentious brand level as is Acura, on a slightly lower scale. Pretentiousness and cheap, sell foreign cars, all the arguments are merely subterfuge. My wife, that is so precious, well my wife drives American.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/128297/why_the_gop_really_hates_unions/


"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Instead of giving back to the community, black buys himself some pimp wheels. Typical.

Just kidding man!

 

[midcan5]

Instead of giving back to the community, black buys himself some pimp wheels. Typical.

According to Reagan it was Cadillac, I guess things are improving, even showiness is foreign today.

 

[midcan5]

I assume this is said to imply that conservatives (or people from the South) do not.

Not at all, liberals are in the South too. LOL

 

[Annie]

Nothing wrong with the individual choosing to buy American or to boycott another country's goods for whatever reason. However, when the government starts doing so, as was written into legislation, there are costs:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051404241.html?hpid=topnews

Trade Wars Brewing In Economic Malaise
Outrage in Canada as U.S. Firms Sever Ties To Obey Stimulus Rules
By Anthony Faiola and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 15, 2009

Is this what the first trade war of the global economic crisis looks like?

Ordered by Congress to "buy American" when spending money from the $787 billion stimulus package, the town of Peru, Ind., stunned its Canadian supplier by rejecting sewage pumps made outside of Toronto. After a Navy official spotted Canadian pipe fittings in a construction project at Camp Pendleton, Calif., they were hauled out of the ground and replaced with American versions. In recent weeks, other Canadian manufacturers doing business with U.S. state and local governments say they have been besieged with requests to sign affidavits pledging that they will only supply materials made in the USA.

Outrage spread in Canada, with the Toronto Star last week bemoaning "a plague of protectionist measures in the U.S." and Canadian companies openly fretting about having to shift jobs to the United States to meet made-in-the-USA requirements. This week, the Canadians fired back. A number of Ontario towns, with a collective population of nearly 500,000, retaliated with measures effectively barring U.S. companies from their municipal contracts -- the first shot in a larger campaign that could shut U.S. companies out of billions of dollars worth of Canadian projects.

This is not your father's trade war, a tit-for-tat over champagne or cheese. With countries worldwide desperately trying to keep and create jobs in the midst of a global recession, the spat between the United States and its normally friendly northern neighbor underscores what is emerging as the biggest threat to open commerce during the economic crisis...

 

[Sammy Jankis]

Nothing wrong with the individual choosing to buy American or to boycott another country's goods for whatever reason. However, when the government starts doing so, as was written into legislation, there are costs:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051404241.html?hpid=topnews

And the costs of not doing so is a massive unemployment for americans.

corporations are not more important than individuals, you brainwashed fascist twit.