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Originally Posted by stratman
This idea is ridiculous to me. You want to keep foreign competition off our shores. So you basically want to take our very diverse automotive landscape and reduce it by more than half?  Does that sound utterly insane to anyone else? I’ll be honest and say Chevy/GM has a few cars I would personally buy and I don’t like any of Ford or Chrysler’s line up enough to purchase. You can’t force people to buy something if they don’t want it and there is an alternative they would prefer. Buying a car is a very big purchase and shouldn’t be maid in haste just to be patriotic. Not to mention the fact that foreign competition has helped force the Big Three to improve their product quality. If Chevy wasn’t trying to out do the imports, and that means anything not made state side, we might not be seeing things like an independent rear suspension on the new Camaro. The problem isn’t competent competition its homeland product stigma and production costs.
I don’t think anyone expects a U.S. Senator to individually reply to every e-mail, phone call and/or letter they receive. Being that every person who contacted her in support was basically saying help get them the money, I don’t see what the problem is with an auto response stating her position. As someone else said just be glad you even got a response. |
you seriously dont comprehend the situation, do you? you really dont know how companies like Toyota get HUGE discounts on taxes to build factories here in the USA and then, when they come in under budget, they take these discounts and savings and put them into the company's budget in JAPAN, do you?
like, for instance, when Toyota built the Tundra plant in San Antonio and then they suddenly had $11million worth of tax dollars available that they said they were going to "reinvest" in the facility... but then the money went away and now there's no telling where it is.
so, tell me, do you just not care? or are you so narrow minded that you can't see the reality here? open your eyes, man... the world is happening outside of your bubble.