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Originally Posted by alfie43

It was designed to politely tell some one that by buying a Hyundai, they killed the hopes and dreams of every American and likely killed a few baby kittens.

Since this whole topic was a response to someone who had already bought the car- it was too late- there really wasn't anything to be gained except to make him feel bad. There have been enough buy American threads to not have to start a new one and reference it from within the poor kid's thread.

This is a joke..right? My wise old father once told me, "Silence is the best response to a foolish statement." I guess I should heed his advice, but here it goes.

From Webster:
po·lit·i·cal
adj \pə-ˈli-ti-kəl\

1: of or relating to government, a government, or the conduct of government b : of, relating to, or concerned with the making as distinguished from the administration of governmental policy
2: of, relating to, involving, or involved in politics and especially party politics
3: organized in governmental terms <political units>
4: involving or charged or concerned with acts against a government or a political system <political prisoners>
— po·lit·i·cal·ly\-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

From AnotherThread:

"With all due respect, allow me to make this observation

You were out of work for 5 months last year. Most likely that was because of the loss of jobs in your local economy due to jobs being outsourced over seas.

You live down the road from Oshawa, St Catherines, and several other large auto manufacturing facilties..... and you buy a car made in Korea.

As I said, with all due respect, but is it just me, or does anyone else see something really wrong with this picture?"
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"Before some of you jump in to remind me that the Camaro is made in Canada, read this entire post. Also, I'm not talking about patriotism. I'm not talking about restricting our free market choices. I am not anti-Asian; my father immigrated to this country from the Far-East. The quality gap is history, so that it is no longer part of the discussion. Again, my point is: It's about US JOBS. "
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Now here's the problem. You've basically just said "I'm not about limiting your choices, but any choices other than buying American are wrong". Therefore you clearly ARE about limiting choices - you are just saying it in a friendlier way. The fact is: this got started because a person had ALREADY bought the car and you made an assumption about his last job being outsourced-which is a subject of a political nature.

From that point on this has been a plea for protectionism well veiled. The thread's title is an invitation to discuss the unfairness of the trade policies of various other countries . That's fine, just call a spade a spade. You're very well spoken and I don't disagree with much of what you're saying- I don't like the path you took to get here. And for people saying it needed to be said, it actually has been several dozen times and it always ends up with Obama this and Bush that- and it got said without busting some poor kids chops.