On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:15:49 -0500, Noon-Air wrote:

> If the "American" companies offered what I wanted, without raping me in
> the wallet, I would have bought one of those. As it was, the *ONLY* truck
> that had what I needed was my Tundra..... and it was made in the USA.

Pay careful attention to the next Tundra commercial you hear...

"...ASSEMBLED in America..."





>
> "Don" <DonAdams@GetSmart.com> wrote in message
> news:S1WIh.25171$S%2.8517@newsfe06.phx...
>> IF American car companies made the best cars and trucks on the market,
>> the foreign car companies wouldn't be so popular in North America.
>>
>> Really simple....
>>
>>
>> "tizak" <tizak_4@yahoo. com> wrote in message
>> news:1173623329.893117.107170@64g2000cwx.googlegro ups.com...
>>> As free traders are we being taken for suckers, with the US and
>>> Canadian government acquiescing with countries actively acting in bad
>>> faith and trading unfairly.
>>>
>>> This is from a newspaper article (
>>> http://www.canada.com/topics/news/na...3037a5&k=21038
>>> )
>>>
>>> Here is the take away from this article...
>>>
>>> "Hargrove said four million vehicles were shipped into North America
>>> last year, many from countries that don't allow foreign cars to be sold
>>> in their markets.
>>>
>>> He took special aim at Japan for tariff and other barriers.
>>>
>>> "One story is that if you buy an import, right away your income tax is
>>> audited," Hargrove said, adding that inspection processes are another
>>> way foreign vehicles are kept out of Japan."
>>>
>>> It is bad enough that the US guarantees their security at great cost
>>> while they build and ship cars from their countries (Japan, Korea
>>> specifically) while undermining the North American economy by blocking
>>> access to their markets.
>>>
>>> Where does fair trade become part of the purchasing decision?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>