As You can see if You have looked at my Profile, I worked for Ford Motor Company for over 30 years and a proud Member of UAW Local #879.
I have tried most of my adult life to try to buy American products, but as I am sure most of You know it's getting harder all the time.
I don't think I could ever talk Myself into buying a foreign vehicle, even if it was assembled here because I know most of the money is still going back overseas.
But it looks like the American automobile industry is going the way of the electronics industry, remember RCA, Zenith, Curtis Mathis, etc.?
I proudly ride a Harley, not that I think it is any better, or for status, but because it is yet another old American standard that I don't want to see go away.
Most of Our clothing is sourced from 3rd World, and Asian Countries, Tonka, Schwinn, Flexible-Flyer, all imported.
This isn't written to chastize anyone for the things they choose to buy, it is simply a nostalgic rememberance of a simpler time when People took pride in the products they worked hard to build, and when the Employers took care of the People that worked for them.
I guess this no boundaries, open market is working.
India has taken over the customer service, China builds and exports pretty much everything, and the only ones who don't benefit seems to be Us here in the U.S.
Who now pay $4 bucks a gallon for middle east oil to put in our Toyota's.
Thank God for the Free trade agreement!