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Re: [article] Clunkers and the Trailer Trash
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Re: [article] Clunkers and the Trailer Trash -
08-31-2009
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"Ed Pawlowski" <esp (AT) snet (DOT) net> wrote in message news:-6qdnUJAOenDpwHXnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com... "Alan" <someone (AT) somewhere (DOT) com> wrote in message Furthermore, over thirty countries now impose domestic content requirements on their automobile industries--among them Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea.5 -- end quote -- If Italy, France and Britain can do it - so can we. So do we stop importing those Canadian built cars? Do we kick out all the assembly plants of non US companies and put those workers on the unemployment roles? Whatever the answer is, it certainly won't be simple. Of course it isn't simple, but why not at least make it fair? The Japanese barley let any American car into the country. Why not make it even? For every car imported from Japan to America, they must take one of ours. Same with all countries. What is wrong with that? |
glut of worthless GM rust with higher costs to the consumer.
Besides, half you clowns don't know most "Japanese" cars are made in Canada
and the US and view them as imports, LOL. Union ignorance talk.
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Of course it isn't simple, but why not at least make it fair? The Japanese barley let any American car into the country. Why not make it even? For every car imported from Japan to America, they must take one of ours. Same with all countries. What is wrong with that? |
Mexico? Buicks from Canada? Hyundai or BMW from the US?
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"80 Knight" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message Of course it isn't simple, but why not at least make it fair? The Japanese barley let any American car into the country. Why not make it even? For every car imported from Japan to America, they must take one of ours. Same with all countries. What is wrong with that? First, the population difference. Next, what do we ship them? Fords from Mexico? Buicks from Canada? Hyundai or BMW from the US? |
Canadian? Both countries have been partners in auto manufacturing since the
beginning. Perhaps if the trade laws were more fair, Ford wouldn't need to
build vehicles in Mexico.
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First, the population difference. Next, what do we ship them? Fords from Mexico? Buicks from Canada? Hyundai or BMW from the US? Do you honestly think there is a difference between USA manufacturing and Canadian? Both countries have been partners in auto manufacturing since the beginning. Perhaps if the trade laws were more fair, Ford wouldn't need to build vehicles in Mexico. |
complain about cheap maple syrup coming from Canada. But you did not
answer the other questions.
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And you should spend your next vacation in the UK, and shop for a car including VAT. Prices are 30 to 70% more over there because of it. So a much smaller percentage of the population can afford one. And I mean noticably smaller. Far fewer cars per capita. Which is why British Rail and public transit is so well developed, millions of their middle class can't afford one and are occasional renters when they need them. That doesn't work in 95% of North America. |
That's why I have emailed your comments to an old friend in Britain, to
see what he has to say. Will let you know.
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"80 Knight" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message Of course it isn't simple, but why not at least make it fair? The Japanese barley let any American car into the country. Why not make it even? For every car imported from Japan to America, they must take one of ours. Same with all countries. What is wrong with that? First, the population difference. Next, what do we ship them? Fords from Mexico? Buicks from Canada? Hyundai or BMW from the US? |
Much of what is used to build the cars.
The whole idea of trade is to trade for something you don't have. Otherwise
trading is mute. Something a GM union brain is too small to understand.
Why would I trade a Japanese Toyota in Japan for a foreign GM is stupid.
Toyota has a great reputation where as GM should have sent the vehicle to
Miller Brewing for cans.
You are touting typical 2 pack econominics.
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"80 Knight" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote in message First, the population difference. Next, what do we ship them? Fords from Mexico? Buicks from Canada? Hyundai or BMW from the US? Do you honestly think there is a difference between USA manufacturing and Canadian? Both countries have been partners in auto manufacturing since the beginning. Perhaps if the trade laws were more fair, Ford wouldn't need to build vehicles in Mexico. Depends on the degree of protectionism you want. Some local tree tappers complain about cheap maple syrup coming from Canada. |
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But you did not answer the other questions. |
it's A-OK to buy a Hyundai built in Korea, or a Toyota built in Japan, but
piss on GM, or Ford for building a car in Mexico? Sorry Ed, you can't have
your cake, and eat it too.
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