Re: Consider buying American!

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:30:58 -0600, Gordon McGrew
<gRmEcMgOrVeEw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

CUT

All this chat about Jobs, Money and the like - US is a big place where
anyone
can be president if he/she was actually born in the US.  Any bugger can be
King
or Queen of England - at the moment we have German descendents but we have
had
Vikings, Dutch and even the French have tried - we have even given them a
tunnel
but they still can't make it!

But hang on a mo!  We now have an enlarged EU or rather a 3/4 USE (United
States
of Europe) with all your employment problems drifting in from the old
Eastern
Bloc and middle Far East car makers are being coerced or bought up by the
big
EU/US makers and even BMW are building in China and apparently selling
there
too.

In the UK - like the US we are a multi racial society with all the
problems that
brings but now even the local Supermarket has 10% Polish/Lithuanian food
on it's
shelves and all the queues at the employment dept are Polish and ex
Eastern Bloc
as are 90 of the daytime drunks and they are also responsible for the 50%
increase in attacks on women and actual rape.

Kia are offering a 100K mile 7 year warranty on their new cars and the
cheapest
is around £7K or $14KUS.

Rolls Royce now have 3 models on sale and are selling them like hot cakes
and
Bentley have at least 2 all sold out @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 well over $400K each. So who is
buying?
No me or you I bet but someone is.

Let alone Gas (not petrol) prices have gone up as have electricity prices
Gas &
Diesel is around $8 gallon and wages have increased by an average of 3%
for the
average Joe but 30% for those employing him/her.

It doesn't matter whether you are in US or UK or EU

Out Gov' say **** the workers (even Labour) and let's get out of it what
we can.

Anyway why cares a **** - when the Asteroid his us in 2012 they'll be
nobody
left.

Hugh


>>> 
>>> It removed tariffs on cars, trucks, buses, tires, and automotive parts
>>> between the two country's, greatly benefiting the large American car
>>> makers. In exchange the big three car makers (General Motors, Ford,
>>> and Chrysler) agreed that automobile production in Canada would not
>>> fall below 1964 levels and that for every five new cars sold in
>>> Canada, three new ones would be made there.
>>
>>I am sure that Johnson didn't say to Mr. Pearson, "Hey Les, lets make a 
>>treaty about how many cars you guys have to make!" There was a lot more 
>>than two pens.
>
>I am aware that the requirements for ratifying a treaty are more
>rigorous than other legislation, but in the end it is just
>legislation.  If big, multi-national cor****ations want it bad enough,
>it happens.  How did NAFTA get passed?  Was there a sudden groundswell
>of popular sup****t for making cheap Mexican labor more available?  
>
>>
>>Is there any action required by Congress before a treaty becomes valid 
>>in the US?
>>
>>It was a different treaty that had to do with domestic content that 
>>labels stuff built in the US and Canada as domestic. It was a prelude to

>>NAFTA.
>>
>>>> The vast majority of the content from Michigan 3 cars comes from the
US.
>>> 
>>> Impossible to tell.  You can get the percentage of domestic content on
>>> any given model.  You cannot get the percentage of US content.
>>> "Domestic" built cars generally have a domestic content of 60 - 90%.
>>> Honda ranges 55 - 70%, Toyota 60 - 85%, Ford 60 - 95%, GM 50 - 90%
>>> Chrysler 69 - 85%.  
>>> 
>>>
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-03-21-car-content-chart_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip>
>>
>>Only about 1/2 of Japanese brand cars are build in the US.
>>
>>Look at the location of the plants that build car parts in the US. The 
>>vast majority of them are in the US for each of the Michigan 3.
>>
>>>> Most of the Michigan 3 plants that produce cars for the US are in the
US.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
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Sir Hugh of Bognor

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it!

Hugh Gundersen
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