US Automakers vs Foreign Automakers

[Aaron]

I saw an interesting commercial on TV this morning talking about the importance of supporting US automakers. Retired autoworkers created and posted a link to their website and I decided to take a look. Here it is: http://www.levelfieldinstitute.org/
I've always bought American cars - both used and new, and this site is a great reminder of why we all should buy American and support American owned companies.
Check it out when you have a chance. I personally think the site design could have been a bit better, but the content is good

 

[FoxNotch]

I'll always buy american. Because I'm loyal and all I use are pickups and muscle cars (so to speak), intermediate and heavy trucks, and foreigners cant touch that).

 

[Snikt89GT]

I try to argue this at work all the time but i'm always the only one who agrees that we should support american business.

Everyone else pretty much always says american cars suck and they want a BMW or Mercedes or some other dumb crap like that

 

[Snikt89GT]

I saw an interesting commercial on TV this morning talking about the importance of supporting US automakers. Retired autoworkers created and posted a link to their website and I decided to take a look. Here it is: http://www.levelfieldinstitute.org/
I've always bought American cars - both used and new, and this site is a great reminder of why we all should buy American and support American owned companies.
Check it out when you have a chance. I personally think the site design could have been a bit better, but the content is good

Nice car BTW, my friend would give his left nut to have a 87-88 GT t-top in good condition

 

[Aaron]

Nice car BTW, my friend would give his left nut to have a 87-88 GT t-top in good condition

Thanks!

 

[2000xp8]

Good link.

 

[bubba-dough]

I recently lost my auto factory job due to a plant closing (moved to Mexico and China). The plus side was free school, TRA pay & ATAA, unemployment benefits, retention pay, severence pay and so on. The drawback is I lost one heck of a job. If only the entire US would see things this way and not only about autos but about all goods. We [the US] are a self sustaining entity that doesn't need to import or export much at all if anything. But the sad truth is we are a world economy now.

 

[Aaron]

Exactly.
We are a world economy, but other nations don't demand many US made goods because they can get the same stuff cheaper locally. They can get it cheaper locally because their economies are not as good as ours, their poverty levels are much higher and this causes their currency to be worth much less. If us Americans want to join in on this "world economy", we will be forced to continue to lower our standard of living to match an "equilibrium" of all countries in the world put together. I'm all for continuing to help other countries improve standards of living, but I'm NOT ok with lowering ours.

 

[rd]

I always prefer to buy American. But I see both sides on a daily basis. Most Government construction contracts, (which is what I manage every day) require all material to meet the Buy American Act. In simple terms, the materials must be 51 % of US origin and final assembly must be done in the US. There are no easy waivers...

Everyone, contractors and suppliers always talks big on supporting this.

On probably a half or more projects we find unacceptable foreign made materials, from nails to floor tile to pipe, etc.

Seems everyone wants to talk the talk and buy the cheaper stuff to save money.

Go figure.

Still, sometimes I feel like Ford punishes it's customers, like me way too much...