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Old 07 Dec 2008, 02:06 pm
Mike Hunter
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Default Re: Import owners are to blame for the recession

Go to an old car show and try to find any old Jap cars


"Marko" <trakp@army.mil> wrote in message
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> "Nate Nagel" <njnagel@roosters.net> wrote in message
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>> buydomestic@usa.com wrote:
>>> If all Americans bought American cars, the US economy would be rockin
>>> and rollin right now. Don't give me that stuff about Toyota and Honda
>>> manufacturing over here either. GM employs 130,000 in the United
>>> States. Toyota employs 30,000, Honda less than that. Most of the
>>> import jobs are just blue collar jobs also, where GM has over 50,000
>>> engineers. The Japanese automakers have brainwashed us into thinking
>>> that buying their car is an investment in this country. I say we buy
>>> from the Big Three and take our economy back.

>>
>> How about the big three start making an appealing product that I can
>> afford, then I'll consider it.
>>
>> By appealing, I mean something more reliable, durable, and in the same
>> ballpark of fun to drive as my 20 year old 944 for less than $20K. Can't
>> do it? I won't buy. (when was the last time you saw a 20 year old Big
>> Three product on the road?)
>>
>> nate
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>> --
>> replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
>> http://members.cox.net/njnagel

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> I was thinking about the age of cars the other day and decided to count
> them and on average I did find that most of the older cars did in fact
> seem to be American made. Just go to a store parking lot and average them
> out.



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