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Originally Posted by JohnR
I'm driving my creaky old Ford.
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Unfortunately, Ford is now the Mexican, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Argentinian, English, Brazilian American Truck company. Want an American car these days, you have to buy a Honda. People buy stuff from china because it is cheap since they can pay their workers $100 a month. I know so many Walmart fans and Walmart has been the biggest proponent of the cheap and disposable chinese goods mentality. Same people complain about jobs going over seas. It is hard though, as it is almost impossible to avoid it. Most of the good US products were union made ... with the unions, the companies had trouble competing, without the unions the workers couldn't afford to purchase stuff. The reality probably has more to due to transportation. Once trade started occuring there was no going back. People weren't going to pay more for US made and workers weren't going to work for wages similar to what people in asia would. It definitely isn't simple.