Saw a show on TV in which an American family from Texas allowed a crew to come in and remove everything in their house that was not American Made. To their extreme surprise they were left with virtually nothing. Maybe they should shop at this site: http://www.stillmadeinusa.com/ Sometimes I get the feeling you guys are against anything made in America.....because many things made in America have an age old association with unions. I think that is why the Chrysler......."Imported from Detroit" commercial is still playing strong......it must work for most Americans who aren't so biased against American made products. Hey.....there is always Toyota and their massive recalls for those that don't like it.
Not true for me.....the Toyota I've driven for 16 years WAS made in America with American workers......best car I've ever owned.
Two Toyotas and one Honda show up on this 2011 list of cars that are American Made: http://www.cars.com/go/advice/Story.jsp?section=top&subject=ami&story=amMade0808 3 out of 10.....are considered "foreign" but fall into this American Made list. That leaves 7 out of 10 as choices that have greater benefit to more Americans. Last I looked the net profits for Toyota aren't "banked" in America. I just find it alarming that so many manufacturing jobs in America have disappeared......
Hey, I don't shop at Walmart but millions of your guys do. Just got back from Fla. more than half the cars on the road were foreign made. Walmart lot was almost filled. Hell you don't even like our health care system. You want us to have one like the other countries do.
I like our health care system.....I just vehemently hate that while a lot of Americans can't afford it as it is there are some greedy mf'ers out there that would enjoy doubling the cost for greater profits. That is less than despicable. Watch what happens if the Obama health care law was ever repealed. It would be a free for all for the profiteers...... Think about it......exorbitant profits from providing health care is like making a killing on the air we all need to breathe. It's essential and we would pay everything we had to get it so by the same token we are ripe to be taken advantage of by those that would control it and many aligned to the right seem to be just fine with that prospect.
8) Here's a swell idea; Government Motors will sell you a battery operated car for just $41,000.00! It's made in America by an official junta of taxpayer financed unions and government overlords who know what's best for you. Last month they sold 281!
Considering that they require 75% domestic parts, it is quite impressive that two Toyotas and one Honda made your list. You want it both ways...you are conveniently forgetting the flip side of the coin by forgetting about cars like the Chevy Cobalt...made by Government Motors...assembled in Ohio...has too many foreign parts to make the list. By the way...YOU ARE USING OLD DATA<i></i> That list that you called "2011" was 2009 data. Check out the new, updated 2010 data... THREE TOYOTAS on the list. TWO HONDAS on the list. Camry and Accord Most "American" That would be, uh, 5 out of 10... The top two...leading in being MOST AMERICAN in terms of parts, popularity, and being assembled in America...are a Honda and a Toyota.
We do much more harm than good by subsidizing inferior products or a poor value proposition. It would clearly undermine our need to impove efficiency and continually innovate to maintain our global competitive standing. About protectionism, tread very lightly for in our lifetime we will no longer be the big kid on the block. In the next 15-20 years, the China will become the world's largest economy and our exports to China increased by 50% last year. Many of our largest, most respected companies receive a large proportion of their revenues from overseas. Intel gets 2/3 of it's sales from Asia...Microsoft gets half of their revenue from foreign sources....and in the be careful what you wish for category, GM is the largest foreign manufacturer in the worlds largest car market - China - and sells more cars in China than in the US.....they'd be in a helluva mess if the Chinese went to a "Made in China" policy! :shock:
Technology reduces the need for manually performed jobs and therefore has led to a cutback of manufacturing jobs in America. That in combination with outsourcing to foreign labor has led to the cutbacks we have seen in good paying jobs which in turn has led to the dramatic reduction in revenues for state and local governments who feed the entire down cycle with their own cutbacks and layoffs. With all of the labor reductions who is left to pay for the goods and services that need to be sold in order to keep the economy humming? It is a new reality in America that we had better get used to. Jobs at Starbucks do not have the buying power of a high paying manufacturing job. In the face of such a somber future we have those that expect for people to pay more for essential services like health care and who wholly embrace cutting the benefits of those who have been fortunate enough to have good benefits.
Are you really suggesting that our society would be better off without technology? Seriously? :shock: My understanding of your economic policy would be to focus on protectionism and create artificial barriers to the application of technology in the workplace......so domestic automakers get shut out of the world's largest most rapidly growing auto markets, Intel and Microsoft lose the majority of their revenues and the most innovative, productive economy the world has ever seen gets left in the dust as the globes more dynamic economies continually find ways to increase productivity and efficiency.....do you really believe that is the best path for our society? Seriously?
Not in the least. I am suggesting that with the GOP's war on labor and the public sector we need to expect a new.....and poorer reality in this nation.....a reality fraught with fewer benefits, lower expectaions of retirement and higher costs of healthcare. There is a price to pay for cutbacks and outsourcing and balancing the budget. Then again......as I stated it may just be a reality that we have to face. You can't get blood from a turnip......so we need to all accept our fate as a second tier economy. Again......jobs created at Starbucks aren't the answer but I have seen comments here that ignore the fact that those kinds of jobs are ill-equipped to buy the goods and services that keep this country's economy on the right track.
How about the ones at Google or Facebook or Twitter or the plethora of other rapidly growing high technology companies you conveniently overlook? Don't they count?
I am sure it is more now but as of mid-Sept. 2010 Twitter employed 300 workers. Good jobs I am sure.....like the ones we need to go forward but 300? Kinda of a drop in the bucket of good jobs creation.
Didn't take too long for us to get back to the GOP being the root cause for all of society's changes and ills...the same ones that are happening worldwide, by the way. War on labor my @ss...keep up the rhetoric...you sound just like the rest of your heroes...you forgot to mention "assault on the middle class" though.
How many employees did Google have 10 years ago? Microsoft didn't exist for all intents 30 years ago....how Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Applied Materials, Amgen? In 2003, in his dorm room, Zuckerberg wrote the first lines of code of what became Facebook.....Facebook is now worth more than General Motors..... Where would have wanted to invest your capital 10 years ago....Google or GM? Would it have been less wise to invest the nations finite resources similarly? By your definition, you would have put all those companies in the same bucket with the Twitter drops and been equally misguided.....it's not Twitter specifically, it's what Twitter and the other examples represent and that is the application of intellectual capital and innovation and the force that it becomes in our economy.... The ability to innovate, raise capital for risk investment and increase productivity and advance our economy has always been the hallmark of our free enterprise system, not hanging on to outmoded ways of production and subsidizing inefficiency.....imagine the wisdom of continuing to subsidize the buggy whip manufacturers. We do so a great peril to our world standing. Hang on to the old ways if you prefer, but you'd better become fluent in Chinese.....
......nothing could be further from the truth. I don't know why you have such a distorted view of the benefits of our free enterprise society and seek to model the behaviors of the failed social democracies but you do. I would like to believe that an enlightened society would view those diasterous outcomes and seek to do the opposite....