27th Oct 2009, 16:20
It's definitely short sighted. To shut down our borders to the rest of the world wouldn't help our economy, it would worsen it. And you're right about domestic companies only making a select few models that actually compete with the imports. The Fusion? That's great that it beat out Honda and Toyota, but where is the rest of the Ford line-up?
27th Oct 2009, 14:25
People have TOTAL control over what they buy. If they choose to buy from foreign companies it is simply because they don't care enough about our country to buy from our own companies. It's as simple as that. The computer I'm typing this on was built 5 miles from my home and has three times the warranty of a typical Japanese computer. All my appliances and electronics (including my cell phone) are domestic. I bother to support our country by taking the time to find products made by our own industry.
I don't know why people would prefer to bash our own country than wake up to the fact that every dollar sent to China or Japan is another step toward unemployment for Americans.