[Papa_D]

As long as Banksters, the Federal Reserve and EnviroNazis continue to have their way with the world and the ever manipulated value of the various fiat currencies, not to mention multinational corporations who take full advantage of "being American" while hiding their profits offshore instead of paying their fair share, we are all in serious trouble and it really doesn’t make much difference where you buy your goods from in the meantime, not until those two main problems are addressed anyway and in the end, the only way Americans will ever be able to "buy American" is if we prevent the various corporations from pretending to be American when they are something else entirely.

By the way, our other vehicle is a Subaru that was designed and made entirely in Japan and the way I look at it, at least I know where it came from and it isn't some bastardized amalgamation of various components slapped together by some multinational conglomerate who was attempting to profit off the absolute cheapest labor available at the expense of quality or durability and I can also just about be guaranteed that the guys that put it together gave a damn about what they were doing at the time.

America has lost it's way and if we don't find it but quick, we will have much greater worries than where we bought our last vehicle, like whether EnviroNazis allow the rest of us to drive them at all or whether Banksters and Profit Prostitutes have us paying 10 dollars a gallon for gas to do so.

 

[Papa_D]

The big 3, regardless of final assembly place, are American companies thus their money stays here.

Don't bet on it, lol.

 

[Papa_D]

Paying taxes is not their goal... a return on Investment is. Profit or increased Equity.

Until they pay their fair share of taxes to at least cover the military protection they receive, not to mention the government contracts many of them get as well, the rest of us should stop sacrificing the blood and treasure which allows them to operate in areas that would otherwise be too hostile to do business in.

Even the nation’s top Iraq war contractor, Kellogg Brown & Root (a former Halliburton subsidiary), was able to avoid paying hundreds of millions in Medicare and Social Security taxes for years — all while receiving $16 billion in plum contracts.

Broken Government | Failure: U.S. Companies Hiding Revenue Offshore

 

[Papa_D]

To be honest, I think if anyone said that to me in person I might break his jaw... Kinda a sensative sore spot for me since I have so many friends that were outta work for a long time after GM closed the plant here to move it to Mexico... They collapsed the economy here pretty good then had the balls to collect bailout money... Besides the fact that it's my friggin' hard earned money and I want the most bang I can get for it, that's NOONE else's business....

This was my last Online response to that type of comment:



For some reason, I never received a reply to that post... :dunno: I just don't think I could keep my cool enough to speak if I actually heard those words come out of someone's mouth...

Ford, GM and GE just to name a few are up to the same old tricks and it would be nice if, at the very least, we didn't end up fighting against foreign soldiers equipped by "U.S." corporations in the next big one.

GM and Ford, through their subsidiaries, controlled 70 percent of the German automobile market when war broke out in 1939. Those companies "rapidly retooled themselves to become suppliers of war materiel to the Germany army," writes Michael Dobbs in the Washington Post.

"When American GIs invaded Europe in June 1944, they did so in jeeps, trucks and tanks manufactured by the Big Three motor companies in one of the largest crash militarization programs ever undertaken," observes Dobbs. "It came as an unpleasant surprise to discover that the enemy was also driving trucks manufactured by Ford and Opel — a 100 percent GM-owned subsidiary — and flying Opel-built warplanes."

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