Walmart wouldn't sell one because it's not certified for sale in America and never will with something like that (unless it comes with a yellow ribbon on the bumper).
Wow I have never ever seen a crash test that has gone that badly in my life. I would never ever in my life buy a car from China! Erik
What about Cambodia? What about Laos? What about Thailand? What about....................... What's your point?
Dave, you know my point exactly. So he's not in the market for a Chinese car - very well. But would he even consider a Japanese car?
OK, see where you're coming from. In Michigan right now, they still hate the Japanese but love the Chinese. Huh????? They still blame the Japanese for taking away their jobs but love the Chinese because they're going to "save" the US auto industry and save their jobs. Yeah right...... I thought you were equating the two. No comparison. Not even close.
Being the employee of G.M. the best response I give is this, I am the last person to say that American Unionism in the auto industry is perfect! It right now is verrrrry far from it! , but we really as americans need to find a way to keep the work and the things we buy within our borders as much as we can or future generations, our children for one, will not get the opportunities we are afforded now! I know that American products are expensive, because we as Americans take pride in the Quality that: we treat our employees,Yes we do! look at how some countries work their children,.The quality of product we send to the consumer! We as Americans EARN AND DESERVE our pay as it is now (or more pay in thecase of non-union workplaces go)(not that they should go union nessasarily that is not my point),but we as Americans BY OUR PURCHASING HABITS can eather doom our children to low paying jobs or support or join in improving what we have now so that future generations are afforded the Opportunities that we have now been afforded! Uh Oh my soapbox is about to cave in, damn! MADE IN CHINA sorry I had to make that joke! 86gsx
....great idea but your timing is off by about 20-25 years. Maybe this would have worked back then - and it was tried with BUY AMERICAN and MADE IN THE U.S.A. Labels and such back in the 70's - but consumerism won out. People sealed this country's fate when they decided buying cheap was better than keeping jobs and American corporations decided that the bottom line was more important than patriotism
I could be wrong but I think Dell is an American company and their profits stay here in the USA. I don't push my ideals on anyone. I believe in live and let live. I just know that it makes me feel better knowing that I do not support foreign companies that take their profits out of the USA and I do not help put American workers out of work. I don't have the answers and I know what I'm doing won't make the slightest difference. I boycott foreign companies as much as possible because it makes me sleep better at night.
I have a stronger word than that for those that don't see a problem with foreign "investment" in the U.S. from socialist non capitalism based countries like the Chicoms and non-publicly owned oil companies (like Citgo). Those are free markets only to their own advantage in trade, but don't go both ways. I have no problem with Japan, South Korea, Germany, UK, Canada, and Mexico. Most of them are either already threatened with the same thing as the U.S. or will be eventually. They also are investing heavily in third world economies for survival like the Big 3 here. They play by the same rules we do and reinvest a lot in this country as their market share grow. Most are run and staffed by Americans anyway. What they've done for smaller communities is a lot more than our US companies. Most of these Communists and ruling-family run businesses, like Saudi Arabia, (can't think of the right word to describe that), have no intentions in establishing manufacturing facilities in the U.S. The long range results of that are very disastrous.
In the macro, you're right. Especially when we make it so easy to give away our sovereignty as a nation these days. But in the micro, can we really sell hamburgers, burnt coffee for $8 a cup, and take care of the health needs forever? Somebody has to produce something tangible or once these people realize they don't need us, (who's going to buy their cars when everybody's at minimum wage, whatever it gets increased to be?) they find someone else to do their work for them, build up their defenses and arsenals, and take whatever they want from the rest of the world. I really don't think they'd blink an eye.
on the one hand i'm a big free trade guy. on the other, i can't see any moral, ethical or economic reason why we should be considering a slave economy ( China ) as a trading partner with "Most Favored Nation" status. i'm not even sure why we're trading with them at all. okay, that last was a lie. we're trading with China because appeasing Communists was the only Nixonian/Kissingerian policy that the Marxists in this country ever approved of. and they intend to do everything within their power to make sure that we keep doing it. now that the overt and not so overt Marxists are receiving help from politicians accepting Chi-Com payola ( Hillary amongst many others ) and businesses who have gotten themselves addicted to the cheap, environmental and labor law unrestricted products it's going to be very difficult to do anything about this.
