You should be ashamed of yourself.....

Oh, you are something else.. Do you understand simple economics? Why are the Big 3 Struggling? One reason is people like the man you were raised by having a pension and retirement benefits. None of these Jap Companies that you support are paying a Dime in Retirements and pensions. Another reason is When things are good, these American Companies give their workers profit sharing, Bigger and Better Union Contracts, and afford an uneducated high school dropout the opportunity to raise a family on its wages.. But I think the real fault lies with the U.S. consumer. First everyone WANTED sport-utility vehicles, now we don't. We buy foreign vehicles because we think the disparity in quality is greater than it really is. A difference in quality does exist, but it's getting smaller, just as an Example, FORD outranked Toyota in Quality this year,. And all arguments pale, I think, beside the need to preserve what's left of our manufacturing base, and the need to try to right our financial deficits.

To top it all off, I wish you understood the business platform, and the double standards involved. You see, These same Foreign Car Companies you support and put on a pedistal reside in countries that tax us up to 7 times to sell a car in their country. Not a very equal playing field. Our Government doesn't have the balls to stand up to it either.. So you know, I will never change your mind, because you will not look beyond the fact your piece of shit Toyota went 350,000 miles just like my Fathers F-150 and Econoline Van did.. Keep throwing your Money towards a country that Sneak attacked us (Japan), and another Country that can't wait to do the same (China)

Yes, it absolutely does.. Profits from sales of American Vehicles go to American Companies, and benefit the American Economy.

Oh Kelly, I was waiting for that response...

Do you know where the profits from those sales and companies go? They go right back to Japan.. You know Japan don't you, The Company that assaulted us years ago, sneak attack, and killed many many men and women. Yeah, the cost of exporting is expensive, but at least we the dumb americans allow them to come and build factories here, and export their vehicles without numerous taxes.. Do you know how many taxes American companies are charged trying to export vehicles into Japan or China?

We should have never let those companies into this Country. I do not care about the handful of Americans working in those plants, they do not compare with the 100 of Thousands who have worked for the Big Three, are getting retirements from the Big Three, and are currently working for the big three...

SOme claim that the Japanese Companies are picking up the slack. This argument implies that the hiring of American workers by foreign companies would never take place if there weren't layoffs by American companies first. Even if you view foreign investment as a good thing, which it isn't, foreign companies will still invest in America even if we support American companies so they can actually retain our own workers. This argument is almost as bad as the one that implies we need to destroy American manufacturing jobs in general so we can move American workers into high-tech jobs. Why not let the college graduates strapped with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and other debts take these jobs and protect American workers in the jobs they choose to have now?