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Since: Jul 09

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For all jap loving car owners just remember that you put alot of hardworking Americans out of work. How can you look yourself in the mirror?

Der

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If the UAW made a car that is as good as a foreign one more Americans would purchase them. Its easy peasy.

What the

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Der wrote:

If the UAW made a car that is as good as a foreign one more Americans would purchase them. Its easy peasy.

I have seen Japanese cars that are just as crappy as American cars. Just because some
Japanese cars are very reliable does not mean all are.
Likewise, just because some American cars are not the best quality does not mean all are.
The real problem with American cars was not so much quality but more the size and efficiency.
The executives at the American car companies were a bunch of guys with a lot of money living in a big sprawling country while the japanese car execs lived in a smaller ciountry and took less money. The Americans thought, "People need and want these behemoths and gasoline costs less than milk so what is the problem?"
Yes milk costs twice what gasoline costs per gallon but I am not going to drink 50 gallons of milk during a one week trip with the wife and kids to Branson.
The Japanese cars are designed in Japan but most are made right here by American workers. So it is not the labor.
If you look at the cost of Japanese cars, they are not exactly cheap when you get the "quality" cars such as Toyota or Honda.
The Japanese were better observers and were designing cars for THEIR countrymen which just happened to be cars that we Americans could also use quite well.
The American car industry rationale and vision was poor and did not plan for the future. That is the main reason their business tanked.

ricer roni

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Can someone tell me which foreign company has come to the rescue of GM or Chrysler?

Yet DOE has granted Nissan $2.1 billion dollars from the 25 million dollar stimulus package. Nissan was receiving $1.6 billion to retool its plant in Smyrna, Tenn., to build advanced vehicles and build a battery manufacturing facility.

The DOE says this loan to Nissan will help Americans by creating more jobs. All the money they receive from the stimulus package will be strictly for building fuel efficient vehicles.

Of course this allows Nissan to use their money they would have had to use on this technology to benefit themselves in other areas of their businesses overseas. Where was Japan, Germany and South Korea when GM and Chrysler needed a loan?

Auto manufacturers overseas don't tax the auto companies in their countries. Otherwise the foreign cars that are still shipped here would be much higher cost than their US built counterparts.

When do we quit giving our country and our jobs to people overseas who maybe our next enemy?

ricer roni

The first sentence should have read...

"Can someone tell me which foreign country has come to the rescue of GM or Chrysler?"

ricer roni

dog gone. I'm too sleepy tonight. I meant...

Yet DOE has granted Nissan $2.1 billion dollars from the 25 billion dollar stimulus package.

anymore typos. just bear with them okay? lol

Excuse me

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We should let the banks and the car people all fail.

Then we can be like Iraq and Iran and have wild madness with everyone running around in the streets all day killing one another because most are unemployed. That sounds like a much better idea to me.

Bring on ANARCHY! HOT diggity dog!

pele

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flofanatic wrote:

For all jap loving car owners just remember that you put alot of hardworking Americans out of work. How can you look yourself in the mirror?

i've been to several union meetings and was completely surprised how many foriegn cars were on the lot. same thing hearing about guys shopping at wal-mart. we're giving it away!

ratwinger 63031

“also know as ratwinger”

Since: Aug 07

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you mean like the american made cars that have made in stickers from canada and mexico.
chrysler closed down the fenton plant but keeps making trucks in mexico.
so if you buy a dodge ram you are buying a foreign product.

Since: Jul 09

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pele wrote:

<quoted text>i've been to several union meetings and was completely surprised how many foriegn cars were on the lot. same thing hearing about guys shopping at wal-mart. we're giving it away!

Many of the union halls have signs indicating that foreign cars are not welcomed. As far as Wal-Mart goes even many of union workers either dont understand or just dont give a shit. Personnaly, Wal-Marts is off limits as are foreign cars. Your right we are giving it away! When American's stop being so damn greedy and start caring, not just about their country, but also their fellow countrymen maybe we can put this thing back together. Peace

Ann on a moose

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I know of many circumstances where union laborers are cutting their buddies throats when they do a job on weekends or evenings on the side. We had a contractor do a small remodeling job which would have cost me much more had I gone through a construction company with union laborers. The same goes with auto repairs on our cars. I would order the parts online and my union buddy would come over in the evening and repair my car for pennies on the dollar of what the dealer would have charged me.

There is no real union brotherhood. Only inside their union halls.

ratwinger 63031

“also know as ratwinger”

Since: Aug 07

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since the brewery in the city sold us out. drink milwaukees best it states on the LABEL union made.

Deep Thoughts

O Fallon, MO

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Excuse me wrote:

We should let the banks and the car people all fail.
Then we can be like Iraq and Iran and have wild madness with everyone running around in the streets all day killing one another because most are unemployed. That sounds like a much better idea to me.
Bring on ANARCHY! HOT diggity dog!

Please tell us that you are relocating to Iraq so that you can rid your pathetic sick twisted little mind of what freedom means and get a taste of what tyranny is.

Bonus Bucks

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Der wrote:

If the UAW made a car that is as good as a foreign one more Americans would purchase them. Its easy peasy.

If you would read the JD Power and associaties survey on initial quality, you would not have said what you did.

Since: Jul 09

Bonus Bucks wrote:

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If you would read the JD Power and associaties survey on initial quality, you would not have said what you did.

That is the standard answer that is given when a jap buying consumer is approached. der has no clue about american made because he and his family have always drove their little rice burners. ill take my 98 f-150 with 210,000 mile, dont tell me americans do not how to make cars der. try one, you might like it!

foreign american

Are you are better off buying an american car (GM, Chryler etc) that is made in another country (Canada and Mexico)...than to buy a foreign car (Toyota etc) made in the USA? Help me out with this one. American jobs are lost...but american companies profit. Or americans keep working, and the foreign companies profit. And I think Fiat just bailed out Chrysler....didn't they?

My Union brothers and sisters better take note. We will all be shopping at WalMart very soon....either because they run everyone else out of business....or we have no choice because their prices are so low.

Ofallon

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Union demands drive prices higher and higher. If union workers would have been responsible, made quality products and not demand so much money the US auto market would be just as strong as the foreign markets.

pele

Ofallon wrote:

Union demands drive prices higher and higher. If union workers would have been responsible, made quality products and not demand so much money the US auto market would be just as strong as the foreign markets.

what my friend is "so much money"; a living wage? i wonder what your take home pay is.

The Mayor

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I wonder how the U A W folks feel about the Dems and Obama, now that we see more factory's closing in the U S but staying open in Mexico & Canada? I thought Obama was supposed to save American jobs!

Since: Jul 09