Do they,,? what are you thinking. Did you forget the torture in WW II, or the shit they rubbed in our faces copying all the products we designed, then under cut prices,sacrificing quality.
I'm not the intellectual of most of the contributors of these column's, BUT I am an American, and probably a redneck, but primarily don't think that Americans should not support our country. 100 %.
Fair trade is exactly that, Fair
I know I have lost all respect by expressing MY opinion., that is freedom of speech.
Nearly ever country in the world, including the US is guilty of a pretty wicked history. what that has to do with our motor industry I'm not sure. We are all just human. Japan attacked us and we retaliate by nuking them and then tearing down their entire social and economic system and forcing them to rebuild using our capitalist ways. This has been good and bad for them. We are no better nor worse. What you consider 'moral' is only because you grew up in the states. What is 'moral' over there is a whole new ballgame.
Fair trade is not black and white at all, and the Japanese are so successful because instead of rejecting the US way of handling global economic strategy, they mimic us. You can't damn the Japanese for doing what we taught them, and then turn around and say it's ok for the US to sell overseas (because if we couldn't we would never have become as rich as we are now.)
and what do you mean low quality? I've gone through half a dozen cars and my little Nissan sedan has never once been taken to a mechanic in 13 years.
I'd like to say the same about the Ford mustang I drove before that. Japanese have made some lemons, so has the US. Whoopie doo
P.S From what I saw the Japanese are quite fond of us. Many are big fans of American cars, especially older models. But we don't make many vehicles here that are good for Japanese cities. Importing a vehicle to Japan is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. No matter what country it came from. Importing your Japanese vehicle from the US costs the same. Only the most well off guys I knew could afford to have their Cadillacs. Having an American vehicle is much more of a hobby for them (it was considered very cool!). I think I was looking at nearly 3.5k to import an Enfield (not including shipping) awhile back.
I'd say that is where the problem is! the damn import laws and regulations, not the people.
But I agree with Blackwolf. We screwed ourselves and put ourselves in this hole. We are going to have to dig ourselves out.