Who's Number Three?

We HAVE to buy non-domestic products. It is the only way we can export our
inflation and keep it hidden from the American public.

I know that seems like a brash statement; when you don't stop to think about
before you flame it. However, if not for the money we spend on overseas
production, all money would be spent internally in the US and the buying
power would be destroyed by the resulting inflation.

 

Isn't Canada foreign?

Don't know. You know what we consider American cars in Canada? Domestic.
Go figure.

 

Foreign? No, not if it's southern Ontario...

DAS

 

This stems from the old Auto Pact. We used to have a real, local auto
industry (early in the previous century). As I understand it, the Auto
Pact, between the US and Canada, allowed the US auto companies to sell
vehicles in Canada, duty free, as long as they made one vehicle in
Canada for every one they sold. This meant that they could, for
instance, sell a New Yorker as long as they made a Caravan. For a
while, in the good old days (like the late '70s I think), productivity
at Canadian plants was such that more vehicles were made in Canada than
were sold.

Now they are closing plants left and right. As an aside, I would have
thought that the number of Firebats and Camaros that are bought by
Froncophone Studs would be enough to keep the St. Therese plant open.

Dan

 

Do you have a source for that philosophy? I've read a few articles dealing
with trade and economic issues and this is one angle I have not stumbled
before.

| We HAVE to buy non-domestic products. It is the only way we can export
our
| inflation and keep it hidden from the American public.
|
| I know that seems like a brash statement; when you don't stop to think
about
| before you flame it. However, if not for the money we spend on overseas
| production, all money would be spent internally in the US and the buying
| power would be destroyed by the resulting inflation.
|
| | >
| > | > | So you take issue with all the Republicans, who still treat companies
| that
| > | move their HQ to Bermuda or Aruba to avoid paying US taxes? They
still
| > want
| > | those companies to be treated as American when it comes to giving them
| > | contracts.
| >
| > The US government buys from anybody...case in point...a Chinese company
| now
| > making the Army berets and a scandavian company making their grenades.
I
| > wish they wouldn't do that and that includes companies that relocate
| outside
| > of US borders. Of course, if the companies are taxed so high that they
| > can't compete internationally that they have to move or die, then that
is
| a
| > issue also that needs to be fixed.
| >
| >
|
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