Posted on 03/30/2009 6:08:53 PM PDT by libh8er
And is made at the Beretta plant in Maryland.
Not a problem at all...way ahead of you on this.
Slight problem there, Toyota employs Americans yes, but their profits don’t go to America.
Who owns Toyota?.....
...plus they don't go along with 'The One'.
I won’t deny that many many manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. A lot of this is due as much to over regulation and over taxation as it is to labor costs. However, your post addressed “auto” jobs. Off the top of my head I can not think of one car sold here that is made in “third world countries” by “slave labor”.
(Unless you want to count Mexico as third world, and then there are Dodge Pickups, and quite probably some GM and Ford products as well made there and sold here.)
That is BS!
couldn’t care less if baretta is made on mars...
This Marine is not buying any foreign cars & trucks. got it?
btw,
Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, June 29, 2007
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corps is upping the firepower for many Marines and sailors now carrying pistols.
Under the old policy, pistols were issued to all officers, staff noncommissioned officers and Navy billets — although the Corps stocks extra rifles for servicemembers in combat zones who go outside the wire, officials said.
Now many of these servicemembers will be issued carbines instead of pistols.
Staff NCOs; warrant officers/chief warrant officers; Marine officers from lieutenant to lieutenant colonel; and sailors at E-5 and below will be issued the M-4 assault carbine instead of the pistol, the new policy says.
The M-4 is essentially a shorter and more powerful version of the M-16 rifle, which is issued to most Marines.
Do they really think that anyone would want a warranty from a government that can’t run the post office, and wants to ‘talk’ to our enemies instead of defeat them?
I will buy Ford next time because they didn’t go along with the bailout scheme and it is an American company.
All well and good. I suppose it will be no problem to have Fiat HUMVEE's, Mitsubishi aircraft, and Chinese munitions; as long as we get to build assemble the crap in the USA and export the wealth?
Next vehicle will be a Ford. Best thing that Ford did, the sales up much more than GM.
“Real” Americans do think.
never bought one before, but here on out, you betcha : )
“I will buy Ford next time because they didn’t go along with the bailout scheme and it is an American company.”
I will consider Ford for my next vehicle because I have had many well made and well designed Ford vehicles in the past, AND because they didn’t take a Govt. handout.
(My current vehicles are from Hiroshima, One of them because Ford dropped the ball this time)
So is Toyota, Nissa, Hyundai, Kia, and BMW... I’m done with Detroit based companies.
Id like to think that I’m contributing to Japans coming re arming-they’re going to need to because if North Korea and China get a little frisky-you can count on obama doing the cut and run.
So you are giving more of your money to Obama???
Beg to differ...bolted together by Americans. Toyota's headquarters are located, if I am mistaken in Tokio, Japan not USofA.
Therefore the profits of the venture goes straight to Japan, not Alabama. Yes, they are paying well I've heard, but to call Toyota, Honda, VW, BMW, Audi etc. domestic brands, that's a stretch!
You like many others, fell for this BS from the manufacturers, that if they set shop in the US, using American work force, it will make their cars US made, and claim all kinds of things.
Walter P. Chrysler, Ransom Olds, David Buick, the Dodge Brothers those are the REAL domestic and American made cars!
Again,
What car is being made in China and sold here?
And what companies are making cars in Mexico for sale here?
As far as my “kid” working at a factory with no OSHA, yes.
If you look at the rate of death and injury on the job before OSHA and after OSHA, you will find that the rate of decline (increase in safety, if you will) DID NOT CHANGE.
Should I go on about some of the hyper stupidity of EPA or do you get my point?
Also, I said OVER regulation. Where did I say we should have NO rules or regulations at all?
We did beat Japan, and we where not in a war with South Korea.. So I don’t know what is your beef is with companies from Japan and Germany?? Would you buy from BMW???
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