Aargh.
I've been waking up late at night plagued by recurrent nightmares of what the continuing decline (near death) of the American manufacturing sector means.
I think maybe what Jungle is trying to stir up is a bit of long delayed loyalty to the idea of driving a Chevy versus a god-damned Toyota or Honda.
If that is the case, I agree with Jungle.
At one point, way back in the late nine-teen-80's, when I'd just gotten my driving license, my Pop would have disowned me if I'd preferred a Datsun over a Ford.
Do you understand that? Did you experience that? At all? Have you gotten that far from wherever the f it was that you were raised, that you've forgotten the old timers that still, even 40 or so years after The War, despised the Japanese ("Japs" to be incorrect)(or Nazis?)?
Have you driven through Flint or maybe even Detroit lately in your Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo, Lexus, Saab, Hyundai, KIA (an unfortunate name my buddy who served in Vietnam commented on) or whatever other non "Big 3" vehicle you're sipping you're spendy coffee in?
Sorry. I'll calm down. A little. But maybe, if you've never been there, check out our Rust Belt. It's big, and sad. It stretches from PA to MI, at the least.
I liked Jungle's pasted Buchanan screed. It's true.
If you, for some reason, feel a need to **** on the workers at our last remaining large scale manufacturing jobs within these borders I have to ask- Why?
Because they did not build, on a large scale, an electric vehicle that you would not have bought because it was unreliable, and would only travel about 150 miles without another charge?
Because their "fit and finish" was not up to your standards?
Because you were seriously only interested in performance, fuel economy, and safety standards?
Because you were totally detached from the idea of supporting American workers producing American vehicles for a decent wage and secure standard of living in America?
Sure, Some of those above mentioned outfits produce vehicles in America now. In what are called "right to work states". Anti-union states. Down South. Plenty of those states' elected reps are now salivating at the idea of the deaths of all connected to the UAW.
All the profits from those cars go away. To another country.
But most vehicles now, even the "Big Three" are produced partly or wholly from assemblies from outside our shores.
We are doomed.
Do you know anyone who makes anything? Builds anything? Creates anything tangible?
Do you want to fly an Airbus? Have you ever researched the corporate spying that European governments did to Boeing in order to build their Airbuses?
Aagh. This ****es me off. Hearing so many idiots wax eloquent about how much better off the "big three", and our country would be if they just failed.
F'n Morons. Traitors. Enjoy your $8 an hour jobs. Someday soon there's going to be an undocumented worker pilot in your seat.