The USA is in decline because many Americans cut their nose off to spite their face and have forgotten that it is in all of our interests to put the economic interests of our fellow countrymen first, before the Asians or any others.
Locale and country have much more to do with purchasing decisions, not ideology. I make it a priority to buy products made or grown by Americans, just as I also put buying from local businesses in my jurisdiction a priority. In the end it helps me and my neighbors.
Geography is not everything. There is nothing less American than nationalizing GM and Chrysler, violating existing (centuries old but still the law of the land and the expectation of those who were robbed) bankruptcy/contract/common law. There is nothing less American than stealing from the bondholders, the rightful claimants on the GM/Chrysler assets to give the loot to politically connected Dem donors including the UAW. I am pro-America, far more so than those who support the bailout, and I will never again buy any GM/Chrysler product. Those companies are dead to me. I have no problem with buying Ford, VW, Toyota, Honda, Kia, or any other brand unaffiliated with the criminal operations in Detroit, but I am boycotting GM forever in favor of more American companies - like Subaru.
I so much agree. Let's see, my last car and truck came from the rather blueish state of Michigan, but my wife's last car came from a more reddish state of Indiana.
I think my next truck will come from San Antonio --can't get much redder than that!
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