Originally Posted By: cousincletus
Originally Posted By: javacontour
Originally Posted By: LS2JSTS
Look people can buy whatever they want, I really couldn't care less. But dont spit in my face and tell me it's raining.
It's the comments that I see all the time, like "my Corrola is more American than your Mexican built whatever".....It just isn't true and it ignores all the other employees that are engaged in desinging and building that Mexican whatever.
It's the transplant supporters who want it both ways. They want to claim domestic status for their Camry or Accord while ignoring the lost revenues in profit and the large number of jobs overseas designing and marketing their "domestic" Accord/Camry.
But who is looking out for the lost revenues of the Camry/Accord owners who had to replace those engines and transmissions?
I'm willing to look out for the American Auto Worker. Where is my check for the transmission in my ex-wife's Pontiac Sunbird, or the not one, but two sets of head gaskets we had to put in that car before 80K miles.
Or how about the transmission and jumped timing chain in my Buick LeSabre. Who is looking out for me and my family with respect to those issues?
Certainly not the domestic auto industry.
So now you want to cry that I'm doing damage to them by owning three Toyotas, two with over 200K miles and one almost to 250K?
Please.
I'll look out for them with the same watchful eye they used when looking out for me and my purchases in past years.
In other words, it's not my job to protect their jobs. If it's not their job to make sure my car is relatively trouble free for 250K miles, then it's not my job to be concerned about their jobs.
Don't think the foreign brands are trouble free either. Honda transmissions, Toyota head gaskets and sludge, etc. It's just a shame you aren't concerned more about American auto worker's jobs and I wish you wouldn't think that way. However, I disagree with you and that's that. You have your opinion, I have mine. I just feel mine's right and better for my country.
And I feel my choices are best for both my country and my family.
Tell me again, why am I supposed to be more concerned about folks who apparently are not really concerned about me?
You keep citing this concern for the American Auto Worker, yet I've still not received any sort of check, thank you note, sorry you had so much trouble, not from them.
That's just it. I'm not concerned with ANY automaker. If Toyota goes out of business tomorrow, I'll not shed a tear. If GM goes out of business, I'll not cheer. It's business. Business rises and falls everyday.
My employer was bought out.
Are you concerned for those who are getting let go? Did you buy a computer from my employer?
It's business.
My ability to care is being eroded by everyone seeming to want me to care about their pet cause.
You name it, be concerned for the folks in Haiti or Chile, healthcare for the poor who don't have it, concern for those who get knocked up in high school and have kids out of wedlock, concern for those who partied during school and now can't get a good job because they dropped out, or barely passed.
Frankly, my ability to care has been worn thin.
I'm tired of everyone expecting me to support their pet cause.
Who is looking out for me?
Where were folks when my ex-wife had an affair and she got the child? They weren't looking out for me.
No, I was treated with suspicion because I was a divorced dad. She was treated as a victim because she was/is a single mom.
Even my church looked at me that way.
Frankly, my ability to care for others has been worn away by too many wanting me to worry about them and their cause and too few willing to take up the mantle of my cause.
My state wants to raise taxes. My federal government wants larger and larger programs, and I'm called un American because I drive a 250K mile 16 year old Chevy made by Toyota using UAW labor.
Sheesh!
I just can't care for others right now!
