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I heard an ad today on the radio talking about how buying an American car. It said that for every foreign job in the car industry that is created, about 10 American jobs are lost.
I kind of scoffed when I heard it. The crash safety ratings of American cars are legendary for their crapness. The fuel consumption and emissions of American cars are crap. Their resale value does not hold a candle to a Japanese or German car. American car companies fail to learn anything from their foreign counterparts. They continue to roll out these shitty cars that look good on the surface, but fall apart on the inside after a couple of years.
My issue with it is this: They want me to feel guilty for choosing reliability over patriotism? The egomania of people here drives me crazy sometimes. If you don't want to lose your jobs to foreign companies, then make better cars! This country is so full of itself, that it is driving itself full speed into the ground. The commercial was obviously privately run by some people with an agenda, I doubt the radio station sponsored it.
It's kind of like this customer I had once...she didn't want to buy anything foreign. She said that it's Americans who are starving. And like China is doing any better? How many fat people have you seen over in China?
Anybody heard ads like this or have any position on it?
I kind of scoffed when I heard it. The crash safety ratings of American cars are legendary for their crapness. The fuel consumption and emissions of American cars are crap. Their resale value does not hold a candle to a Japanese or German car. American car companies fail to learn anything from their foreign counterparts. They continue to roll out these shitty cars that look good on the surface, but fall apart on the inside after a couple of years.
My issue with it is this: They want me to feel guilty for choosing reliability over patriotism? The egomania of people here drives me crazy sometimes. If you don't want to lose your jobs to foreign companies, then make better cars! This country is so full of itself, that it is driving itself full speed into the ground. The commercial was obviously privately run by some people with an agenda, I doubt the radio station sponsored it.
It's kind of like this customer I had once...she didn't want to buy anything foreign. She said that it's Americans who are starving. And like China is doing any better? How many fat people have you seen over in China?
Anybody heard ads like this or have any position on it?
Both cars were about the same size, but the Saturn fared worse, simply because of how it was built.
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