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"Get Your Flag Decal Off Your Foreign Car!"

Bikewer

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Saw this one today on a Dodge pick-em-up..... A rabid "buy American" type, I suppose.

40 hours a week, I drive a Chevrolet Impala police car. It has a little sticker on the window that says, "proudly made in Canada".
I believe the Ford Focus is currently produced in Mexico, as are a number of other models.
To add further cognitive dissonance, Honda, Toyota, and Kia (at least) all have manufacturing plants right here in the US....
And all the big "American" manufacturers are invested to some degree or another with other foreign firms.

Folks need to wake up and realize that though "Buy American" is a catchy slogan, it is after all a world economy.
 
And we pay less for Chinese products here, than the Chinese pay for the identical product in China, the LA Times noted. :)
Interesting how adding a sea voyage and layers of suppliers between source and consumer lowers the price. :boggled:
 
I Ratant said:
And we pay less for Chinese products here, than the Chinese pay for the identical product in China, the LA Times noted. :)
Interesting how adding a sea voyage and layers of suppliers between source and consumer lowers the price. :boggled:
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Thus is the miracle of the Global Economy. One day we will all be Walmart "greeters". :eek:
 
I Ratant said:
And we pay less for Chinese products here, than the Chinese pay for the identical product in China, the LA Times noted. :)
Interesting how adding a sea voyage and layers of suppliers between source and consumer lowers the price. :boggled:
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The actual mechanism is called "currency manipulation".
 
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My last "American" car, a Dodge Caravan, was built in Canada. My last two "foreign" cars, a Toyota Sienna and a Toyota RAV 4 were both built in the US (Kentucky and Michigan, respectively).
 
"Get Your Flag Decal Off Your Foreign Car!"

I sympathize with that statement, not for economic reasons, but because I think flags on cars are trite. Driving around with a ol' Glory is like having a bumper sticker that says, "I like ice cream." Safe and boring.

"Wow honey. Look at that! He is in some way associated with America. Let's wave!"

Drive around with an Imperial Japanese flag on your car. THAT'S interesting.
 
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KingMerv00 said:
Drive around with an Imperial Japanese flag on your car. THAT'S interesting.
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Heh. At TAM, a bunch of us went out for sushi on Thursday. I noticed that a number of people coming into the restaurant were wearing "FreedomFest" badges. Curious, I whipped out my iPhone and looked it up. Turns out it was a Libertarian/Tea Party-style convention going on at Bally's.

Which meant that TsarBomba wound up getting some very, very dirty looks for the Hammer & Sickle Fez he was wearing. :D
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I have a Scarlet A on my car, but most people don't know what it means.
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You need a licence plat personalized "Hester" to go along with it.
BTW I presume that you, like me, consider the 1995 version "Scarlet Letter" to be the worst rape ever performed by Hollywood on a literary classic. The damn thing had a happy ending......
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I have a Scarlet A on my car, but most people don't know what it means.
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Perhaps they just avoid you because they've read the original book and think you're trying to send a message that you're the most boring, dry, drawn-out, tedious, monotonous person ever born.

Or, like actually most people in America, really don't care that you're a atheist who likes fads.
 
A "Hester" license plate might give people the wrong impression of what my Scarlet A stands for.
 
The idea that having your country's flag on your car is pointless, suggests either an extraordinarily large country, or an extraordinarily insular attitude.

Oh wait....

Here's the infamous murdered mallard photo, showing the numberplate of my VW Golf.

duck2.jpg


Rolfe. :c1:
 
Rolfe said:
The idea that having your country's flag on your car is pointless, suggests either an extraordinarily large country, or an extraordinarily insular attitude.

Oh wait....

Here's the infamous murdered mallard photo, showing the numberplate of my VW Golf.

[qimg]http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk/duck2.jpg[/qimg]

Rolfe. :c1:
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boah cruel.

i wonder if you would post that picture if it was your postman and not just some duck :eek:
 
Cleon said:
Heh. At TAM, a bunch of us went out for sushi on Thursday. I noticed that a number of people coming into the restaurant were wearing "FreedomFest" badges. Curious, I whipped out my iPhone and looked it up. Turns out it was a Libertarian/Tea Party-style convention going on at Bally's.

Which meant that TsarBomba wound up getting some very, very dirty looks for the Hammer & Sickle Fez he was wearing. :D
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Looks like Shermer spoke at that conference.
 
My Honda Civic was made in East Liberty, Ohio. The Ford Fusion I test drove was made in Mexico. Which of these two cars is the American car?

Steve S
 
Bikewer said:
Saw this one today on a Dodge pick-em-up..... A rabid "buy American" type, I suppose.

40 hours a week, I drive a Chevrolet Impala police car. It has a little sticker on the window that says, "proudly made in Canada".
I believe the Ford Focus is currently produced in Mexico, as are a number of other models.
To add further cognitive dissonance, Honda, Toyota, and Kia (at least) all have manufacturing plants right here in the US....
And all the big "American" manufacturers are invested to some degree or another with other foreign firms.

Folks need to wake up and realize that though "Buy American" is a catchy slogan, it is after all a world economy.
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A kid at a job site I was on years ago was showing off his brand new '86 Chevy Nova to all the guys. He was quite proud to "buy American", and had made a big deal of it. When I walked by the open hood and mentioned that my mother-in-law had the same engine in her Corolla, and not because Toyota had started using Chevy engines, he was very upset with me.
 
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