GM Admits Fudging Payload Ratings

BenK wrote:
Buying 'American' might have been possible 15-20 years ago, but today in the
21st Century...pretty much can NOT

Mainly due to the public's demand for the "cheapest at any cost" and the corporate
exec's finding that to appease that demand...they could also increase their bottom lines...

Try to outfit yourself with clothes that is NOT made offshore

Or check the labels in any store in the USA and you WILL find most stuff offered
for sale is made offshore. High production volume stuff...not specialty goods

Buddies are finding Snap-On Tools has 'Made in China' on them. Guessing that will
be a growing trend

Buyers demand for: "Cheapest at any cost" goods has our corporations going off
shore more and more. Plus doing what this thread is all about.

"off shore" in that our exec's are 'paying them' to become our peer competitors.
Using 'our' IP (Intellectual Properties) ***AND*** up-lifting 'their' countries

'We' pay for their new roads, new sewer plants, new trains, new factories, new
goods that they NEVER would have in such a short time...as the factories pumping
out goods for buyers over here demanding: "Cheapest at any cost"...has them also
provide goods for 'their' population

But...to claim any one of the current vehicle OEMs builds a 100% AMERICAN vehicle
is bugus...anyone ever wonder why the MSRP labels now has a line stating the
percentage of origin? or some such verbiage

I don't believe anyone here thinks there is a 100% American built vehicle today, but having said that, some choose to purchase their vehicles from an American company.