Originally Posted by onehundred80
Sadly thats the view of too many and that is ruining North America, we have to reverse these job losses or your children and grandchildren will be forced to leave the country to get work as second class citizens in the area we now call the third world.
If we do not manufacture major items, we will lose the knowledge and knowledge is power.
I agree with you, but getting Americans to buy inferior products to protect jobs is not a sustainable business model. The Japanese and Germans have done a good job building their cars here here in America by Americans. If the american manufacturers would just engineer the cars to a higher standard they wouldn't have ever gotten into this mess. I am old enough to remember when Japanese cars where junk and German cars were just plain weird. The American manufacturers took advantage of our goodwill and didn't bother keeping up with the foriegn manufactures strides in quality. Japan and Germany figured out that if they could build a better car than GM, Chrysler and Ford, we would buy them. What Detroit can't seem to figure out is that if they could build better cars than Toyota we would buy them. I think the American manufactures are cheapening the cars inordor to offset labor costs and remain price competitive. GM is saying that they build cars as good as the Japanese now. I say BS and what have they been doing for the last 40 years? They were making that claim in 2007 when I bought a CTS that doesn't even come close to build quality or ride of the Japanese and German cars. I am done with American cars and to protect jobs we should by Mercedes, Nissans, Toyota's and BMW's made in the Southeast USA.