Posted on 10/24/2004 11:08:27 AM PDT by Willie Green
My sisters and I became ashamed when we got the news. My mother and father bought a Hyundai.
My father used to be a General Motors man. Sure, he made the mistake of buying a few Fords over the years, such as the 1976 Pinto that mother wouldn't ride in for fear it would explode. And both Volkswagens were lemons, especially the Beetle that wouldn't start unless we covered the motor with a plastic diaper every night.
But father only made such mistakes with our second car. Our main car was usually a GM. I still miss our 1976 Catalina station wagon, a gas hog with a 456-cubic-inch engine. Father often said that it drove like a Cadillac, and I marveled at its explosive power when all four barrels were opened full-bore.
~~~SNIP~~~
All I know is that free trade has greatly boosted my parents' standard of living, and that's one thing they'll be thinking about as they drive off to the polls in affordable style.
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I'm glad I was able to bring you some joy! Now excuse me while I go back to my alternate 'quantum' universe, it's very small, isolated, and immeasurably lonely you know, lol.
"I don't have any problem buying foreign cars 'cause I'm sick and tired of supporting Leftist Democrat-endorsing unions that game Detroit automakers at every turn."
Word! I feel that it is my patriotic duty to NOT buy a car made by the corrupt special interests labor gangs.
"People often say, but what about those farm subsidies? That's counter to free trade.
'Simple. They are a countermeasure to European farm subsidies, which are among the worlds highest subsidies.
The goal is to get Europe to drop it's farm subsidies, and equalize the playing field. Until then, we have to equalize the playing field with subsidies, although ours are much lower than theirs. The Europeon subsidies will eventually bankrupt them'"
Why equalize the playing field? Let's drop our tax funded farm subsidies and let's let those Lefto-European tax payers pay for our food with their crazy subsidy system! It doesn't get better than that!
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