Looks to me you fancy yourself mini king of America expecting your subjects to buy American cars when they are a far inferior product to Foreign made cars.. but cost around the same money. Sounds to me you are the one basing your opinion on the union...Mexican peon wages? $25 hr in Lincoln Alabama is pee on wages?? And just think...those American workers making peon wages are building a much more quality car than the more highly paid Union workers. Hmmm. Sorry..the very position you take here goes against everything America stands for...that we should buy American cars to support union workers regardless if that car is the best to buy or not. The American car companies cannot compete with Foreign car companies building cars on their own soil because they are hostage to the union. Why haven't American car companies built more plants in right to work states? Foreign companies have benefitted from this. Why are Foreign car companies thriving and expanding while 2 of the 3 American companies not only had to run to Uncle Sugar for help. I hate it. I'm a bowtie guy from wayback and it kills me what has happened to the American car companies. It's their own fault and they deserve everything they've got. There's no excuse. The foreign car companies are doing just fine building cars here in America, why can't the American companies do the same? Actually I think you got it backwards Dennis. THere's nothing American about buying a lesser vehicle just because it's an American owned company. Think about it. If you allow foreign companies to come onto your soil and dominate you in your own backyard...you deserve nothing more than to die and be relegated to the ashheap of fat, bloated, businesses that couldn't compete.
That is a long erudite post but in the end means nothing. If you want to save America (I seem to remember you live in Nippon?) with our huge debt and trade deficits then you want to buy from American owned factories on US soil. Logic says you don’t want to leak out profits to foreigners. This means you tell Porsche, Nissan, Toyota, Honda to scram. They can sell or destroy their US factories who cares
So in my ideal world (without free traitors) the only factories making automobiles here are American owned. Buy from them or ride a golf cart. You see your consumer choice as paramount while I rate American ownership and American jobs higher
#1— you are too eager to bow and scrape to your new foreign masters who make automobiles you crave
#2 — definitely automobile union workers have to be cut down on compensation in my scheme.... But you also have to put some blame on management too. For the disaster in GM and Chrysler though Ford is OK. Right?
Sorry...it is vigilante man who lives in Japan I think