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I inherited the desire to buy American cars to support America workers from my Uncle would was a WWII vet. He didn't like Japanese products (he was in the Pacif
by Clubber 7y ago
I inherited the desire to buy American cars to support America workers from my Uncle would was a WWII vet. He didn't like Japanese products (he was in the Pacific theatre). I've been buying American cars for the last 20+ years and currently own a GM. I think the next one I buy will be Japanese or German and it's ironic. While I spent my money on American cars to support American workers, the American companies offshore their manufacturing / assembly to Mexico while foreign companies who sell cars in the US use domestic labor for manufacture / assembly.
So it seems like if you want to support American workers, you should buy foreign cars that manufacture / assemble in the US. That's certainly unintuitive.
- rootusrootus 7y agoAre you conflating GM with GE?
- entropea 7y agoI read it that way too, at first, mostly because of GM's recent strike & health benefit cut headlines.
- RIMR 7y agoThat's pretty incredible that you read this article so fast that you managed to misread the ~30 instances of "GE" and "General Electric" as "GM" and "General Motors", and never noticed the giant "GE" logo at the top of the article, or the "General Electric" stock ticker on the sidebar. It's almost like you only read the headline and nothing else, because the article itself screams "General Electric" in a way that nobody who actually visited the page would ever have been confused.
- Clubber 7y agoYes. I guess it's because GM is in the news too.