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To: GrandEagle
I've had some really bad "run-ins" with unions too, but I still support American Built, American owned, automobiles.

But Toyota, Nissan and Honda all build substantial numbers of cars in the USA. Ford and GM build a lot of cars overseas, and even market them as American cars. Chevy's small cars are made in Korea. The new Pontian GTO is made in Austrailia. So nameplates are not a good way to measure where a car is built.

Ownership of a company is also somewhat problematical. The Dodge boys are part of Mercedes, so if you go by corporate-ism they aren't really American anymore. On the other hand Ford owns Mazda and Volvo --- will you buy them proudly?

Of course the real owners of all public companies are the shareholders. Unless you've done a lot of analysis it is probably hard to know what the nationality of the majority of shareholders of a publicly held company is.

64 posted on 01/05/2005 9:06:12 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
so if you go by corporate-ism they aren't really American anymore.
No dispute. Just trying to do the best I can figure out to keep our folks employed.
69 posted on 01/05/2005 10:41:54 AM PST by GrandEagle
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To: Jack Black
will you buy them proudly?
Yes, if built here.

Cordially,
GE
70 posted on 01/05/2005 10:47:03 AM PST by GrandEagle
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