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Old 09-26-2008, 10:20 PM
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Ok, first off what the heck is your big problem with credit and why do you feel as if you should tell people how to manage their funds? Maybe I don't want to save for 10 years to buy a car outright when I could have my car now and pay them later? Maybe I need to buy gas or groceries but can't wait until pay day?

And secondly American engines are used in vehicles all through Europe and the Pacific. You don't find American engines or components in many foreign cars for the simple fact that labor costs are so high that it's cheaper for manufacturers to get components elsewhere. That is the same reason why jobs are outsourced and why even American cars are assembled outside of America. It is too expensive to produce items like that here. That is just simple economics.

I don't understand your problem with foreign vehicles anyway. Just because someone else can build something better and cheaper elsewhere you hate them? Just because American auto manufacturers use cheaper foreign parts instead of parts made in America you accuse slave labor? You do realize this country was born on immigration and raised on imports and foreign trade, don't you? Let me remind you that the steam engine, the backbone of the industrial revolution, is an English invention. The Automobile is a German invention. American's contribution is the assembly line but frankly the Japanese have mastered that far better than we have. If you question what I'm pointing out to you I suggest digging back into your history books, or even wikipedia.

America is about freedom. Freedom of choice, freedom to manage your finances how you like, freedom to buy whatever available motor vehicle you like, freedom for businesses to make business decisions for the better of the company in order to continue bringing products to consumers. Sometimes that freedom calls for moving production or product assembly overseas where products and labor are cheaper, and the freedom to do so is there. That's how America is, that's what America is about. Welcome to a capitalist society, for being so gung-ho Americano you don't seem to accept what America has become very well. If you don't like it, please observe the emergency exits to your North, South, East, and West.

I rest my case, and my part of this discussion ends now. I must say you're missing out on some mighty fine foreign automobiles that'll walk over anything America has to offer.
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