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Originally Posted by Golfingnut
Ford car
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golf cart from Georgia
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I am wondering how many parts of that Ford car and US made golf cart are being imported from overseas. In addition, some Fords are made in Mexico and Canada. Toyotas are made in several locations in the US so the "give an American a job" argument has less and less merit. Plenty of Americans have jobs in America working for Toyota, Nissan and a lot of other foreign based companies.
We now have American companies opening manufacturing plants in foreign countries and foreign companies opening plants in the States. so it's become a bit difficult to discern which is which. We're living in a much more global community today. It's not as simple as the old days of us against them.
American manufacturers, including and especially the car companies are responsible for much of this problem. For a lot of years, they produced inferior higher costing products and they allowed foreign companies to surpass them. People enjoyed these foreign products and developed loyalties for them. Now many of the American manufacturers are trying to play catch up and go begging to the government to help them out of a mess that they created. True, American cars have gotten better recently, but they got lazy and sat back while they watched Toyota fly past them in many different ways. And I don't think that many of the American cars today still can't compete with the quality of there foreign counterparts.