Today when most of the American steel companies are gone, or owned by
> foreign inventors, the majority of steel is imported and thousands of good
> paying American jobs are gone forever.
>
> Those steelworkers, still at work, have lost most of their benefits and
> are working for less. The same is true for autoworkers is foreign owned
> auto "assembly only" plants in the US today, even though the foreign cars
> cost American MORE to buy.
>
> If you want to buy steel today 85% of it is imported, harder to get on
> time and it costs TWICE as much as when it was made by Bethlehem Steel
> etall. American steel is a prime example of what will happen to American
> autos, if Americans continue to buy imports over domestics.
>
> The same thing that happened to steel will happen with the cars you buy.
> It is happening even as we speak. According the US Department of
> Commerce, no matter how they try to spin it, Toyota imports the majority
> of their vehicles it sells in the US, at higher prices than domestic of
> similar size and with similar equipment, and the majority of the materials
> and parts they used to only assemble vehicles in the US, are NOT sourced > in the US
>
> mike
Damn right.
My fleet: 87' Bronco II, 2000 Chev Astro, 2004 Ford Mustang,
2003 Ford Ranger, 2003 Ford ZX2.