Read if you will but I doubt most will.
My step dad was the director of the UAW until he retired.
Yes we had many debates (My Dad passed in 1972 while at work managing the Ford Utica Trim Plant he was only 56). So I can speak from some real inside info.
People who work at either dealer ship or factory are not raised in any select group. They are all people like us, who may leave a Toyota dealer or factory and start work the next day at Ford/GM or Chrysler.
Once you take the cars out of the mix it comes down to this.
Your loyalty to your own country and its people.
Toyota is foriegn owned & operated with a few token plants in USA.
I know I have a machine in each one which they sent to Japan copied and made the rest.....all the time telling us they would never do that.
We abandoned the made in USA and not for many years did the USA car people decide if USA buyers prefer overseas then why are we killing our selves to keep it here?
If you look to the retired states how many are on pensions or retired on USA companies as apposed to Foriegn companies (suppliers and the big 3 alike)?
- How many Billions of tax dollars are paid by USA suppliers verses foriegn.
- Our infastructure, schools and military rely on it.
- USA engineers & companies create and foriegn only copy & tweak.
- USA manufactures build from their own pockets.
- Foreign are subsidised to beat us then take over then rape us for prices.
- They recently did this to the steel industry 13 steel companies (the largest in the world are all gone since Clinton passed the mandated clean air act with no time nor help to build the systems).
- We now have one.
- Steel prices have risen 750% since then.Scrap steel yards now have 3 miles of trucks waiting to deliver scrap steel @ $360.00 per ton which we export to Mexico.
Think people! at what point will we have to pay 5X the income tax to pay for all those out of work? Or retired with no income? Or sitting in a nursing home with no-one to pay for good staffing? List how many Toyota facilities verses USA auto facilities after you pick yourself up off the floor then do the math based on 10 years ago.
Then realize for every 1 USA auto worker there are 10 working at suppiers and small companies from barber shops to realestate offices supporting them.
It is basic math. Send your dollars to a different country and demand service from those in your country. At some time the well runs dry LIKE NOW.
So if your desire is to own a foriegn car is so bad that you can say sorry to your starving neighbor but I wanted the KIA......then I guess you can also thank him and all those who worked and died for your freedom to do so.
Also if you do your research you will find when Toyota execs stayed at the White house (and China car execs a few months later on). That is when the US stopped investigations into Toyota recalls that never happened..........4 years later they all were arrested......barley made the news in the USA
Typical Asian Kia Hundia pay for auto worker is .27 cents per hour no bennies(Skilled trades) Korea
10 US autoworkers = 1000 Asian do you realy think an American can do the work of 100 Koreans???? We can be more productive but a 1000% more
Typical Mexican Auto worker 2.65 per hour no bennies
If the cars cost about the same as ours....then........how much profit are they rapeing us for?
Sorry for the long post and no I did not spell check or rant just the brutal facts we all need to search our minds and hearts before we buy.
One final note:As a employer in Michigan of 70 people (families to feed) I can tell you not a week goes by that someone doesn't say these words.
Tom, I have a brother/sister/cousin/good friend/neighbor that really needs a job bad. They have kids and are about to loose there home.......can you please help them?
Then they leave church in a new Honda Toyota Kia or what ever.......
And yes I own over 100 new Ford cars and trucks all loaded top of the line (bought not leased).
My Motorcycles are Harley's and Victory's and my 4 wheels are Polaris
Now I also have a partner of a high tech factory in Germany where we support them and have 17 BMW's, 1 SLK55AMG and 1 loaded to the MAX F-150 guess which one they rave about.....yep the Black F-150 super crew 4X4, tuned by Lidio of Alternative and stops a crowd where ever it goes.
Just how I feel,
Tom
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