Doesn’t the United States make anything anymore?

The Buffalo News ^ | 2/17/2009 | Stephen Manning

[nyconse]

I suggest you google Toyota quality...it’s the worst rated company these days...that being said, after we have no manufacturing, you better hope you have a car that lasts...it’s likely none of us will be able to afford cars in this economy...no manufacturing to pull us out of our modern depression...but no worries, I’m sure our Wall Street bankers will figure out a way to make pretend money again or hey the gov. can just keep printing the money. We don’t need no stinking domestic manufacturing which creates five jobs for every manufacturing job...we can all work at Walmart or McDonalds-it will be grand!

[razorback-bert]

What does Toyota quality have to do with GM’s poor customer relations? My problems haven't with the dealers(who have been ever helpful), but the product they sold me. For instance, the water pump on a new 71 Buick went out on me when the car was two weeks old and it sat in a dealer's shop for a month awaiting a new pump from GM. An Olds went throught seven alternators all under warranty and another throught two sets of wheel bearings. Oh yes the trim fell off my 91 Caddy,j but after warranty. If I thought about it, I could write a long list of problems with GM and Ford. I bought Ford trucks for my business, because they were tougher than the Chevys, I bought before.

People don't forget these things.

I just did a quick google survey of Toyota's ratings, which were excellent as was GM’s. The only bad review was from Consumer Reports which I never pay any attention to.

Actually, I have a Toyota and its’ fit, finish and performance remind me of my Bimmers.

Come on, if you are so in favor of tariffs, you should know all about them, so who benefits from the sugar tariff?

[hedgetrimmer]

Come on, if you are so in favor of tariffs, you should know all about them, so who benefits from the sugar tariff?

The "free traders" always use tariffs as the bogeyman. Since tariffs are constitutional and can lower income tax on wage earners, you can see the "free traders" use the tariff bogeyman to obscure their hatred of the American preferences against taxation.

The next problem with your statement is that there is no 'sugar tariff' per se. It is a price support program where government loans to sugar farmers can be paid back in sugar if the price drops below a certain level. This combined with quotas on cheaper foreign imports helps mantain adequate pricing for sugar.

Now, in the last decade, since the advent of "free trade" and the WTO, third world sugar exporting nations were given authority over our sugar policy. Yes that's right. What should have been an entirely domestic issue was 'internationalized' by "free traders" who started a campaign to smear American farmers and favor third world exporters. The globalist press immediately began supporting the third world, countries like the Dominican republic, rather than demonstrate an iota of concern for our own domestic economy.

So now American citizens have another identity crisis. The "free traders" annihilate advantage of low taxation, freedom inducing tariff in the minds of many Americans with a ceaseless hate campaign against them, abetted by the foreign governments of countries who would benefit from removing the price support. Now Americans are dealing with the fact that another clean,efficient US domestic industry is being destroyed in favor of unsanitary third world farming practices who achieve low prices by low capital investment. That is , instead of buying equipment to harvest, they use SLAVE labor without any proper sanitation equipment in the fields for the slaves. Haitian slaves in the Dominican Republic were institutionalized when the "free trade" CAFTA-DR was passed.

Do you see where "free trade" leads us? Always to SLAVERY NEVER to FREEDOM.

[nyconse]

Check out some really nasty posts about the tundra, Lexus and others...Toyota has terrible customer service as well.

[nyconse]

As for people not forgetting, I wonder how they will feel when there is no domestic autos and we make nothing in this country, thus dooming our children and grandchildren to poverty and socialism. Free trade and globalist will destroy this country in the end with their ill advised traitor policies.

[sauropod]

Debt. We make lots of debt.

[hedgetrimmer]

So who benefits from the sugar program? Who is benefiting now that it’s been dismantled? Why do “free traders” oppose lawful constitutional tariffs? (don’t say they’re a tax on Americans because they’re not)

[razorback-bert]

Corn producers and ADM who make corn syrup. The tariff makes Fructose Corn Syrup cheaper for candy makers and soda bottlers than cane sugar.

Also the south Florida sugar barons.