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Originally Posted by Lawrence

Also...tell them to thank all the Toyota and Honda drivers for buying foreign vehicles.

See it does make a difference if you buy a Ford, Chrysler or GM product.

A: I deliver freight to Honda and Toyota, more than to the (former) Big 3.
B: Honda and Toyota are providing good jobs for our working folks - they don't pay ludicrous salaries, but they are pretty good jobs, in an economy with a serious - no, make that a crippling, shortage of them.
C: If the American mfrs can't compete, (which seems likely, given their inability to change their wrongheaded practices and procedures), then they deserve to fail. That's how capitalism works, no?
As true as the bumpersticker "Without trucks, America stops" is, it's just as true for decent jobs - we cannot survive as a healthy society without jobs that provide an opportunity to get ahead, instead of behind. I wish the American mfrs were providing them, but they are not, are they?