Top 10 most "American" cars

[Diamondpilot]

Originally Posted by schmism

so now that Anheuser busch is foreign owned whos refusing to buy budlight and Budweiser?

If it employs American workers to build products i dont care what you call it. its made in the usa.

more than i can say about 99% of the rest of the products people wont give a second thought to buying that are not made in the usa.

seems odd to me that you would put your support behind a US headquarted company that employees 0 us workers to build there products that they sell in the US as opposed to the companies that actually employ Americans to build products that are used by Americans regardless of were they are headquarted.

in a global economy define a US product.
1) made/built in the USA
2) made in some other contry but by a company headquarted in the US.
3) made in some other country, head quarted in some other country but 51% owned by US citizens.

so which is better. employ tens of thousands of US workers makeing products and send profits to a few hundred executives not in the US. or NOT employ tens of thousands of US workers but put money in the pockets of a few hundred US executives?

what's "send untaxed profits to some other country" is that after the SS tax medicare tax income tax that is removed from the workers pay by the us GOV. is that after they spend that money they were payed at the local store on food, gas, clothes which then get sales taxed. Or how about the property tax on there house they pay with the money they made from that job. Or the sales tax on that car that was sold at that local dealer who then had to pay income tax (as a local dealer) on that sale, and local property tax on his building.

Very well said Steve. You are a man that sees the light!

Its not the way I necessarly want it. I would love for everythign to be 100% US owned and operated but we have sold our soul for a profit and now have to live with it.

Chris

[Builder]

I see the light plenty good, too and I think there's a more common sense approach than that. It's easy to convince yourself to just give up and accept the "world community" or "world economy"....whatever the liberals call it these days and think it does matter.

Truth is, when you buy from an American based company, most of the profits stay here in America. I know because Glen Beck said it on the radio. lol

All kidding aside, I do think Beck's right. I go out of my way to buy from American companies when I can, even if it's a bit more expensive or not exactly what I want. I can get Korean steel for my buildings, but pay a few bucks more for American steel. I buy American trucks and equipment, even if they're subbed to foreign companies on some of the work.

I don't think the playing field is level on world trade. The US gives up too much advantages to other countries. I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling buying Chinese and that's the way I see it. I have no problems with what others believe. Live & let live, but don't cry when the only think left to buy is a Chinese full size pickup with a daedong diesel in it!!

[Renze]

Originally Posted by Builder

I don't think the playing field is level on world trade. The US gives up too much advantages to other countries.

Not just the US, also in Europe governments are forcing regulations through manufacturers throats to enforce more environmentally friendly production, labour unions battle for higher wages and better pensions and benefits.
No Western government puts tax on 3rd world production to make a level playing field for their native companies that have higher production costs due to better environmental and social practices, so the socially and environmentally responsible companies are outcompeted by (next to) slave labour from China.