Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Pansies like you piss me off. Buy the best car for your money, you should be able to define what is "best." If america is not the "best" due to reliability or build quality, then we should get hurt in the pocket book and be forced to correct our mistakes and FIGHT to make the best product, not profit from b.s. jingoistic pride.
Most American companies are owned by so many foreign interests - look at Chrysler - are they really an american company or what? At least japanese companies are building cars HERE instaed of mexico.
Also, buying a used car does not put money in anyone american factory workers, dumb ass.. It just screams "I'm short sighted and try to make empty symbolic gestures..." you dumb ass...
Yeah, his own freedom to choose pisses you off. Wonderful sentiment there jackass.
The very essence of freedom is to be allowed to make decisions that other people do not agree with so long as those decisions do not infringe upon the freedoms of others. There's nothing at all wrong with him buying an American car, nor is there anything wrong with him preferring an American car.
ZV
I don't think there is anything "wrong" with buying an American car or preferring American cars, but I can agree with freedomsbeat that "buying American" is, at best, an empty gesture. America, as a whole, would be economically better off by NOT buying American goods that can't be produced
as efficiently as other countries. And this isn't an industry where we're just new and haven't established our footing yet; we were the founders and still lost the head start advantage. You'll hear a (relatively) small group of American car manufacturers scream bloody hell about the dwindling market share because it's a big loss
for them, but you'll never hear about the benefits to the country.
Granted, if you have to explain yourself for buying a non-American car, then by all means, do it to avoid the conflict. But you shouldn't be fooled to think the gesture is helping anyone other than
those special interest groups.
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
does a car produced in the usa count, cause that way you are supporting american workers regardless of whether its an american, asian or european company. however, if you want to make the executives richer then you should only look at american companies. Personally I would want to support the workers so i would buy something produced in the us. I dont really care about the brass at any company cause they're money grubbing commies 🙂
You're right. Buying American would help
this generation of American employees in that industry. Because otherwise, several thousand people will lose their jobs. And there is no economics that can measure that loss.
But from an economic point of view, millions of consumers will benefit from the proper reallocation of natural and human resources. And the
next generation of American employees won't be unemployed. They'll find jobs in the thriving sectors of industry. Of course, you'll hear A LOT more from one guy losing his job than from thousands who beneift (who complains about benefits?).
There's a book that explains this well for people not looking for a complete education in Economics, but the name of it escapes me.
