Mark,Originally Posted by mhall
Awe now don't get me wrong I'm not one of those that only buy American even though I do try to. I have a Yamaha on the back of my boat. Was gonna go with Mercury but at the time they only offered 1 year warranty and I had some buddies not happy with theirs. I have owned a Toyota car and it was a good one. Unions killed the car industry and hopefully they have learned a very valuable lesson and move on from here and make good with it.
I haven't given up on American made products just yet....... Touchy subject and everybody sees things in their own way and that's fine........that to is the American way
I re-read my post I didn't mean to come off as a defender of Imports and Walker I wasn't aiming anything at you either brother.
Man....I kinda got a chip on my shoulder about that stuff and one day if we sit down and have a beer I can tell you stories of growing up in a little redneck town outside of Orlando in the 70's with everyone knowing my mom is Japanese. Talk about taking some grief over that!! Kids are cruel.
It just ironic that this has come up since we just discussed this at my buddies shop the other day. We all got fired up (I guess I still am) but when we got past the buy american idea we realized that it was tough to name major american made stuff. The Germans and Koreans seem to get a pass on these topics?? I find that interesting.
I agree it's very complicated and in fact you have to discuss politics, corporate america and Unions when you really get to the meat of this topic.
Hopefully noone takes offense to my previous post because none was intended.
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