I will agree to disagree with you...
Further, nothing I stated is untrue...
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, regardless of how misguided that may be...
In my view if the Company is on U.S. Soil, 100% wholly owned & operated by U.S. Citizens than its a American company.
Honda, Toyota, etc., do not fit that description...
To buy something Non-American, when American is available, is the reason why last year was the first year in U.S. history that FOREIGN MADE CARS accounted for greater than 50% of all Automobile & Truck Sales in the United States...
That's a big fricking problem if you want to keep Americans working and American dollars in America...
The same goes for Wally World, they actually try to get American made items on the shelf, and when I buy at Walmart, if it says made in U.S.A. then I buy it...
U.S. Auto workers employed by Honda, Toyota etc., make disproportionately less in wages and insurance coverage than, those employed by G.M., Ford, Dodge, etc., in the U.S.
Further, they receive a disproportionately greater number of h1b visa and other temporary worker visa's than other Auto Manufacturers such as Ford, et.al.
The American UAW along with the stinking free trade agreements that we can thank Ronald Reagan, H.W. Bush, Slick-Willie and W. Bush for are a huge reason why we now have Government Run Auto manufacturers...
And Union's like the UAW and SEIU (and its sibling ACORN) are why we now have the Socialist in Chief & Company nationalizing everything in sight; Banks, Auto Manufacturers, and Health Care Providers if we let them force ObamaCare down our throats too...
Ford has started a trend of bringing back its work into the U.S. for some time now, and has closed many plants in Mexico & Canada...
Its a start...
Toyota & Honda, and most other foreign based/owned Auto manufacturers to the UAW - "We Are Not Interested"
According to the federal government, (not that I take much stock in what the fed says) a vehicle with a 75-percent or more domestic parts rating is classified as a domestic vehicle. The web-based resource site Cars.com has compiled the 'American Made Index' that lists the top ten vehicles made in the U.S. according to where their parts came from, where they were finally assembled, and even how many were sold in the U.S.
The ten vehicles and where they're assembled are:
- Ford F-Series - Dearborn, Mich.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Norfolk, Va. (Except Ford F-650, F-750)
- Chevrolet Silverado - Fort Wayne, Ind.; Pontiac, Mich.
- Toyota Camry; Camry Solara - Georgetown, Ky. (Except hybrid Camry)
- Ford E-Series - Lorain, Ohio
- Chevrolet Cobalt - Lordstown, Ohio
- Ford Explorer - Louisville, Ky.; St. Louis, Mo.
- Chevrolet Malibu/Malibu Maxx - Kansas City, Kan.
- Ford Escape - Kansas City, Mo.
- Toyota Sienna - Princeton, Ind.
- Chevrolet TrailBlazer - Moraine, Ohio (Except now discontinued TrailBlazer EXT)
Again, what they fail to note is in the case of the toyota's listed herein is that most of the profit goes back to Japan...
Lastly, my case in point is that IF you look for made in (or predominantly made) U.S.A. products; cars or otherwise you can find them...
Hungry?
Out of Work?
Eat your Rice Burner...