I have to disagree. Americans do suffer from quailty engineering. Look at Lockheed, Boeing, etc. The Joint Strike Fighter costs something like $140 million a p

I have to disagree. Americans do suffer from quailty engineering. Look at Lockheed, Boeing, etc. The Joint Strike Fighter costs something like $140 million a plane. Its foreign competition costs somewhere in the range of 40 to 60 million. Oh, and it already has most of the kinks out. Or take the Apache helicopter, which are still hand built. At current capacity, only about 60 can be built a year. And we're on a war footing. 51% of your tax dollars get shuffled to the DoD. We're fighting and losing two wars. Chrysler is a private company that couldn't get a loan from the firm that owns an 80% stake in the company. They know better than anyone that its not "labor cost" that's holding back Chrysler, but fundamental inability to run their business in a profitable fashion.