Buy an American car:
Upside= $30,000.00 stays in the US and tons of American jobs are helped.
Downside= If you believe the BS about lower quality then maybe, MAYBE you may have to take time and visit the dealer one or two more times for a warranty repair over a Honda or whatever.
Buy a can of American mandarines:
Upside= $2.34 stays in The US. You get a warm fuzzy feeling from doing your part.
Downside= None. Everyone sees the value of keeping our dollars here so they can circulate and not add to our deficit when you are talking about $2.34.
Start talking about purchases that really make a huge differecne and most Americans revert to shortsighted, self-centered thinking.
The actual real truth is American cars are crazy, crazy reliable. Too bad so many will still gladly send the $$ from the second largest purchase of thier lives to Japan or Korea over and over in the tiny hopes of gaining a tiny advantage at such an extreem cost to the country and eventually to themselves as well.
