Originally Posted by Greger
Originally Posted by issodhos
Originally Posted by Greger
The same folks that don't have money for American cars also don't have money for Toyotas. There is a repo business here in my complex, almost daily another truckload of cars comes in for detailing and their trip to the auction. The banks are foreclosing on all makes and models. It's one of the few business' here that are thriving.

It would be interesting to know what you and others who are using the term mean when you refer to "American cars". And since Toyota was mentioned, if they need help will y'all be willing to go to their rescue as well to protect their American work force?
Yours,
Issodhos
Issodhos I thought I was very clear in referring to "American cars" as such but I was in fact referring to American Owned Auto Manufacturers or specifically the "BIG3" (which is a possible misnomer) I very specifically did not refer to Toyotas as "Foreign" cars but for clarification will in the future refer to them as Foreign Owned Auto Manufacturers Who Use American Labor for Final Assembly.

I would have to ask whether a car could be considered an "American car" if parts of it are manufactured elsewhere, and can a company be considered truely "American owned" if it is a public company with stock held by many diffenrent nationalities? I would ask whether the Canadian-based Ford assembly plants produce "American cars" and to what country do the Ford employees probably have alliegence?

I would also be interested in reading what the primary justification is for helping the "Big 3". Is it to protect US-based jobs? Is it to protect stockholders (0wners)? Is it to protect government revenues? Is it to maintain nationalistic economic-based power to be wielded by the ruling establishment in its relationships with other nation-states?

No, answering "yes" to all will not suffice as I asked for the primary justification. Yes, different people can have different primary justifications.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos

"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos