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Water-Bug
Nov 24, 2014Explorer II
wintersun wrote:
Where have you been? US companies started shipping jobs to China while Reagan was in office and he had the US Dept. of Commerce encouraging businesses to do so. GM for one has been spending a great deal more to build new auto plants in China than it has in the USA.
The US government is not your friend in case you have not figured that out - unless you are a billionaire or a bankster in which case they have you covered.
Banks in the USA have strangled American manufacturing since 2008 when they crashed the economy with their trillion dollar theft. Ohio lost more than 2 million manufacturing jobs thanks to companies either going out of business or shipping production overseas, companies like Apple and Dell and GM and many others.
This is the current Top Ten vehicles in terms of percent made in USA content. Are any of your vehicles on this list? If not then why not?
1. Ford F-150 pickup / Toyota Tundra pickup 75% USA
2. Toyota Camry sedan
3. Honda Odyssey van
4. Toyota Sienna van
5. Toyota Tundra pickup
6. Toyota Avalon sedan
7. Chevy Corvette Stingray roadster
8. Honda Ridgeline pickup
9. Honda Crosstour SUV
10. Dodge Viper SRT roadster
One of Henry Ford's goals was to have every component of all Ford vehicles manufactured by a Ford employee. He had his own power plants, steel mills, mining operations and even lumbering mills for his Woody Wagons. What has his world become?
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