Excellent point.
When a Toyota owner drops his car off for service they actually ship it back to Japan to be repaired and the mechanics are paid in Yen.
EVERYONE knows that only GM, Ford and Chrysler build cars in America.
The American auto industry employs vastly more people than do the Japanese transplants operating in America, buy 80% of all the car parts made in the United States, and employ vastly more managers, engineers, and researchers in the United States than do the Japanese. Toyota executives have stated that the only reason they have any plants in the US at all is for political reasons, and there is no guarantee those plants will remain here if the Big Three go under. If you want to act as a cheerleader for the Japanese, go right ahead; just don’t expect anyone to call you a patriot for doing so