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Originally Posted by jan kohlmann
Some of you may not remember when Harley-Davidson almost went belly up to the foreign manufacturers. The US government stepped in with tariffs and restrictions to help them back on their feet. Now they are a great and profitable company again.
Foreign countries protect their industries much better than the US does. I have lived in Japan for two years and Korea one and you see very few American or other countries' vehicles there. No, the playing field is not fair much of the time and has hurt our US industries. While many of these countries spend their money trying to promote and protect their business, the US spends billions trying to promote freedom to the rest of the world.
Pray for our troops as they protect our nation so the rest of the world can build their factories here.
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Come on, man. For years folks like you were saying that we should not let foreign cars into our country because the manufacturing jobs and economic benefits of those jobs are overseas helping another country, all the while they ship their cars over here and sell them to Americans for dollars that are sent back overseas. Yet we allowed that for many, many years. Today, foreign automakers aren't so foreign anymore. These vehicles are being built in places like Indiana, Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The dollars paid to these workers are now turning over in OUR economy. The arguments from the domestic automakers are LAME. Instead of telling consumers "just watch us build better vehicles" they instead say "waah, don't let the bad ol' Japanese in with their better cars." That doesn't cut it. Harley Davidson didn't thrive because of the government; they thrived because they found a business model that worked. Likewise, all the domestic automakers have to do is focus on building better products. That's all Japan has done, but yet the American automakers and their fans try and make it some patriotic thing. It is not.