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"Kaytee" wrote in message ... In article , vj writes: Really? Have you actually found an American car? My father has been... complaining... for years about the lack of American cars.... Even the ones with American brand names on them are filled with parts made elsewhere, and it's almost impossible to get American made replacement parts.... As always, "follow the profits" to figure out what's American (and good for America) and what's not. Ford is American because, no matter where the car was made, its profits stay in America. Ditto for the companies that Ford now owns: Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover fairly recently, even Aston Martin. Ford also has a controlling interest (33%) in Mazda. But Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and so on are foreign no matter how many US assembly plants they have, because the profits go to the parent companies overseas, and that's where oversight and control are. At least that's the yardstick I use. Sorry for opening this can of OT worms. It's one of my hot buttons as you can see! - Steve R St Louis |
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You bought a truck? Cool... can you show it to us? What color is it?
Deirdre On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:36:02 -0700, vj wrote: that makes sense. the truck i bought today is a Dodge Dakota pickup. |
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Oh, well. I was imagining 007 glistening black or fire-engine red.
grin But brown is a good, sturdy, reliable color :-)... Deirdre On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:01:10 -0700, vj wrote: vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Deirdre S. : ]You bought a truck? Cool... can you show it to us? What color is it? just - brown. i'll put up a picture as soon as we actually take possession of it. ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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Good music on long trips is a blissful thing. G. and I always bring
lots of options along, and the person who isn't driving gets to pick. Fortunately our tastes are a very good match... Deirdre On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:25:00 -0700, vj wrote: but it DOES have a CD player in it, so i can listen to what **i** want - not what the station wants to play. [from someone who creates a LOT of her own CD mixes] |
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In article . com,
says... As always, "follow the profits" to figure out what's American (and good for America) and what's not. Ford is American because, no matter where the car was made, its profits stay in America. Ditto for the companies that Ford now owns: Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover fairly recently, even Aston Martin. Ford also has a controlling interest (33%) in Mazda. But Honda, Toyota, Subaru, and so on are foreign no matter how many US assembly plants they have, because the profits go to the parent companies overseas, and that's where oversight and control are. At least that's the yardstick I use. In today's global market, it makes more sense than any other version I've heard. Thanks! Celine -- Handmade jewelry at http://www.rubylane.com/shops/starcat "Only the powers of evil claim that doing good is boring." -- Diane Duane, _Nightfall at Algemron_ |
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, they told
me they ran their shipments through a couple of cycles in an automatic dishwasher, and did some serious culling before putting the survivors out on display. now THAT is ingenious -- and it probably weeds out all the "weak" ones .... Cheryl of A HREF="http://www.dragonbeads.com" DRAGON BEADS /A Flameworked beads and glass http://www.dragonbeads.com/ |
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