5030
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- Joined
- Feb 21, 2003
- Messages
- 26,997
- Location
- SE Michigan in the middle of nowhere
- Tractor
- Kubota M9000 HDCC3 M9000 HDC
Ah yes, a Jeep. Lets see, if it a YJ or a Liberty it's made in Toledo, if it's a Grand Cherokee, it's made in Detroit. Of course, the Germans own Chrysler now......Lets see, GM owns a big chunk of Suzuki, Chrysler owns a part of Mitsubishi which, by the way is about to go **** up, Ford owns a share or most of Jaguar. The list goes on. It's all about the prostituting of the American economy.
I have a Kubota. yes it's Japanese but so is every CUT made. Maybe I should say Japanese, Chinese or Korean. The big tractors aren't American either. The NH mid size units are English and Italian as is case. JD is Japanese and whatever. My boss adamantly refrains from buying foreign and he got a TC30D. He said to me, "It's a New Holland, made in the good old USA". I opened the hood and pointed out the Japanese writing on the engine. He shut the hood and shut his cake hole.
Good old Harley Davidson, "Made in the USA" on the tank. Should say "Assembled in America from a conglomeration of foreign parts".
By the way, there are a few things still made in America. Of course American made items are more expensive. Take machine tools for instance. A real honest to goodness Bridgeport vertical mill is about 1 and 1/2 times as much as the third world counterpart. I buy as much American made as possible, especially for the machine shop, however, sometimes the American hard goods are priced out of my reach.
I could go on, but why beat a dead horse. Just send me your computer and monitor along with your camera with the whatchamacallit lens as payment for your newbie attitude on this forum. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Isn't that Carl Ziess guy a punk rocker??
I have a Kubota. yes it's Japanese but so is every CUT made. Maybe I should say Japanese, Chinese or Korean. The big tractors aren't American either. The NH mid size units are English and Italian as is case. JD is Japanese and whatever. My boss adamantly refrains from buying foreign and he got a TC30D. He said to me, "It's a New Holland, made in the good old USA". I opened the hood and pointed out the Japanese writing on the engine. He shut the hood and shut his cake hole.
Good old Harley Davidson, "Made in the USA" on the tank. Should say "Assembled in America from a conglomeration of foreign parts".
By the way, there are a few things still made in America. Of course American made items are more expensive. Take machine tools for instance. A real honest to goodness Bridgeport vertical mill is about 1 and 1/2 times as much as the third world counterpart. I buy as much American made as possible, especially for the machine shop, however, sometimes the American hard goods are priced out of my reach.
I could go on, but why beat a dead horse. Just send me your computer and monitor along with your camera with the whatchamacallit lens as payment for your newbie attitude on this forum. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Isn't that Carl Ziess guy a punk rocker??
