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You are 100% correct in dismissing the jingoistic nonsense about the Toyota/JAPAC blather. On my way to Haubstadt I pass the huge Toyota plant every time, and that's merely the one here in Indiana. I don't care what corporate entity gets to inhale the profits, and what language they speak--although, let's face it, the Toyota CEOs likely speak several, fluently--the point is They Are Employing American Workers. Unlike hundreds of American companies that put red white and blue packaging around a product built in Taiwan.
Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. When the All-American manufacturers finally grasp the change in the economic climate, and cease devoting their energies and efforts to the newest, biggest, gaudier Hummer-sized gas guzzlers, and begin to put some thought into safe vehicles of elevated fuel-efficiency standards, they'll only be about two decades behind the curve.
To actually break any emotional ties to USAC after all these years for this "transgression" is, frankly, funny to me. It's like finally getting angry at a decades-long, known arsonist because he burned an American flag.
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