[quote=UCGal]Scarlet –
But I have to say – I’m taken aback by your obsession. There are several spots in this very long thread where you have 3-4 posts in a row – JUST YOU.
What are you hoping to accomplish by arguing loudly on a thread that you are contributing probably 70% of the posts?
Like I said, I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with the buy American thing. I just wonder what you’re hoping to accomplish and wonder who you’re trying to convince…[/quote]
1 I get paid by the post.
2 I know a few things about the topic
3 I’m a shill for the American worker
4 I have nothing better to do
5 I’m obsessed?
6 Shooting fish in a barrel is too easy to pass up?
7 The Freudian aspect of the import buyer’s incessant need to make it seem as though they “had no choice” fascinates me. Why not just say “it’s what I wanted” and be done with it? Why are they drawn bitterly (guiltily?) to any pro-American discussion like moths to a flame?
If I had a nickel for everytime I’ve responded to some version of “American cars suck, I’ll never buy a GM product” on various forums, I’d have lots of nickels. Why don’t Americans, living in America, know that Americans make good cars? Weird! Why don’t they want to know? Why do they resist believing it?
Why do so many Americans relish the chance to put down their OWN industry? Why do Americans look at another worker who has a good job with benefits and a good pension and feel angry jealousy?
Why do Asian and European countries have workers protesting, blocking roads, rioting and CEO kidnappings to protect the very jobs that Americans want so adamantly to die in the US, and go over-seas ? If I can’t have that good job then no one should have it?
Why do Americans notice, nitpick and loudly complain about problems with American cars and at the same time act as if imports don’t break? Imports certainly do break, and with the same regularity (which is to say rarely, as with all makes, import and US) but the desire to paint a false picture just to make their OWN vehicles look worse is fascinating, no?
These questions desire answers. I gather the answers and store them in a lock-box.
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Flu, no connection to the auto industry. I do have a connection to American jobs, just as you do.
