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Originally posted by scorpioboy33
Buddy I think it's awesome that you are so well informed and take a stand based on what you find. Well Done!
Buddy I think it's awesome that you are so well informed and take a stand based on what you find. Well Done!
Last weekend for instance, I stopped in at the annual family reunion on my way to Tennessee and found myself surrounded by Ford people that have all switched to Toyota's.
All my damn life all i ever heard from my Dad and his brothers is how Dodge was junk and Ford was the A-Class American Vehicle, to which i scream, "BULLSHIT!"
Hell, I remember not even 20 years ago how they themselves did nothing but slam foreign cars, now they all drive them? WTF?
It did get a little ugly though, my niece is pretty proud of her '05 Toyota whatever the hell it is.
Anyway, she and her Scion owning brother decided to tag team me and try to explain to me how much better their cars are than American made cars.
They have each only owned one car a piece at this point of their young lives, I have owned damn near 30 cars since i was 16 and only one was a foreign car i inherited, which by the way was the biggest piece of shit money pit i ever owned on 4 wheels.
The biggest and basically only point they could make was that they run better, and i say "BULLSHIT" to that because i don't give a fucking damn if i have to repair my American vehicles every weekend, THEY ARE AMERICAN SUPPORTING AUTOMOBILES!
But the fact is, I have never owned an unreliable American made car, NEVER.
I own 3 vehicles right now, a '99 Dodge Ram, a '72 Charger 500 project car, and a '96 Ford Windstar i drive daily, and with no trouble at all from either.
I'm about to buy a '68 Newport from a buddy for cheap too.
The thing about cars and their reliability is dependant upon the owner and how they maintain their cars. if you neglect ANY vehicle for long it will break down on you, be it made overseas or in America that is just a fact of life.
Secondly, every auto manufacturer produces a lemon from time to time, and i owned one of Toyota's lemons, i just didn't have to buy it and it cost me $600 just to learn it was fucked and going to run in the thousands to fix, so i junked it.
I wear my Buy American shirt with pride, and someone always has to challenge me on that...well fuck that, I support my own countries bottom line and answer to nobody for that.
Like i've said, I have owned damn near 30 cars and have seen nothing in my world that leads me to believe that foreign cars are any better or worse than an American made ride, period.
It's tough, i can't deny that. but if anyone really wants to support this economy and not those who have sights set on dominating us and owning everything about our lives, you can be a bit more choosey and learn which companies make products that support our economy, and only buy their products because they do still exist, for now anyway.
A vast majority of people don't understand this and have bought into the whole "Foriegn is better" concept, to which i very loudly scream "BULLSHIT", in their general direction.
But at the end of the day they will do what they want and i'll do what i have no choice but to do and Buy American whenever humanly possible...
Ya know, I can't help but think that if we all focused more on whats going on in our own land and banded together to make a better more productive future for ourselves...things would get much better.
Our leaders certainly don't have anyone's best interests in mind beyond their own, that's a fact.
Hard working Americans built this country and not a damn one of us should ever allow that to be taken away or sold from under us.
Just think about it, what can we possibly get out of lining another countries pockets when it only takes away our independance in the long run?
China saves twice as much a year as America does now, and they got that way by buying American companies from Americans and that should NOT be allowed to happen, NAFTA proved that already.
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