Trying to be a good american........

[cfelton]

I'm with yall, I try to buy American made when possible, but I buy Toyota vehicles because they are so reliable ( and are assembled in USA). When Walmart started they went on and on about" MADE in USA" products, you don't hear that anymore. I use to work for Union Camp Corp.( an American owned and operated paper and wood products company) which merged with (bought out by) International Paper Co. I was told that the new plant built in Brazil would'nt affect us, but a year later they shut the whole plant in Franklin Va. down sending 1500 people home. I was lucky to find another job with Nucor Steel to which I'm very proud and thankful to have! Nucor won't buy or use any Chinese made products! I really feel sorry for anybody struggling to find a good job in these times. But I hear alot of people complaining about not being able to find a job when there are jobs out there. It may not pay what you're use to, or be as clean or nice as you're last job but it is work and it does pay the bills. We at work just went through a shutdown for a week to repair some things we couldnt fix while running and the contractor co we use came in with almost 100% hispanic workers to help us do the work. It is dirty, hard but rewarding work. When I asked about why they hired all hispanic workers I was told they couldnt get Americans to do the work. I guess if they're getting money ta sit on their *** and do nothing, they're ok with it. I think anybody getting a FREE check should be drug and alcohol tested and cut off if they dont pass it. When I was out of work I cut grass, cut wood and worked at a local body shop to try and make ends meet. My family depended on me to provide for them and I didnt want to let them down. I would have shoveled $hit or done anything to make the needed money to keep my family going. I think some Americans have lost this feeling!! Just my two cents!!

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by cfelton

I'm with yall, I try to buy American made when possible, but I buy Toyota vehicles because they are so reliable ( and are assembled in USA).

This statement always bothers me as Toyota hasn't had that great of quality for the last 10 years or so. They've been turning out subpar work since the late 90's and using there rreputation that the ybuilt in the 70's and 80's to sell them. GM has been making great vehicles since the mid 90's, but to many people are still hung up on the 70's and 80's and some of the complete SH!T they turned out then. I work on cars out of my house, and TOZYOTA's are one I will not normally touch. Not because of morals, but because they end up costing me more to work on than I will make it in warranty repairs later on. Most all of teh imports are becoming this way for me at least. DODGE still needs to bring up there interior quality, but otherwise are also pretty good now as well. It just burns me when I hear peopel say how great the imports are, and then they continue to say how great they are even when they need thousands of dollars worth the repoairs when there are domestic vehicles running longer with less than half the repairs in many cases. As for the imports being assembled here and the domestic vehicles beig assembled elsewhere, we have nobody to blame but ourselves and the unions for this.