Hmmmm...and this whole "buy American" thing...so when people were buying "American" by buying Dodge & Jeep during the DaimlerChrysler era, where were the dollars going then? Bill M 65 Coronet 500 'vert On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:14 PM, David orr <fe2orr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I get the point BUY AMERICAN. well guys it is a world market and has been > for a long time. Its is a shame that the American makers did not get it a > long time ago, but they missed the boat and now it is pay the piper time. > what about all of your clothes that are made over seas???? All your food > that comes from over there??? You want the us to buy American and be > isolationists??? Lets see that includes much of the oil we use for gas etc. > It can not be done. I agree there is a real unbalance of trade and we need > to balance it but we can not not buy anything foreign and we can not only > buy certain items because they can do the same. Lets take it a step further > and only buy from your own local vendors. Go back to the MOM & POP stores > and don't shop and Wal Mart, buy from your local farmers and stay out of the > major stores. Come on guys its a world market and we have to deal with it > or go down the drain. All these companies are going where the money is and > where they can produce it for the cheapest. They don't give a hoot about us. > I buy what I feel is the best product for the best price. Not the cheapest > but what I feel I get the best value for. M2C Dave O ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html.