It's not Toyota's fault that Americans would rather pay Toyota and get a nicer car than have a better standard of living for American auto workers
Where does this mentallity still come from? Do you really think its cheaper to build the car in japan and then ship it accross the ocean instead of just manufacting it in America? If you took the time to look it up the so called Japanese cars are just as much american as american cars are (in the sense of the auto workers). Granted the person(s) who get the profits from these companies might be in Japan instead of America but who cares? using your example it appears that Toyota has plenty of manufacturing plants in American, Honda has plants in America as well.
So in the end buying a foreign car supports American auto works just as well as buying an American car does. Plus its not the consumers faults that the American car industry screwed itself by promising to much to the unions and the result is obvious with the sub par quality of american cars because they have to squeeze every last cent they can make from the consumer to compensate for the union.
But although some of you idea is miss based, your on a good track with the thought process. Anyone looking at the state of capitilism in America can easily see that every company has started to just try and extort everything they possibly can out of the consumer. The laws of how business works was great for back in the day, but back in the day corporations didnt span accros the country and because of the lax laws then companies today are able to take advantage of to many loop holes that in the end only hurt the consumer. Its a serious problem that needs to be looked at IMO.
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Where does this mentallity still come from? Do you really think its cheaper to build the car in japan and then ship it accross the ocean instead of just manufacting it in America? If you took the time to look it up the so called Japanese cars are just as much american as american cars are (in the sense of the auto workers). Granted the person(s) who get the profits from these companies might be in Japan instead of America but who cares? using your example it appears that Toyota has plenty of manufacturing plants in American, Honda has plants in America as well.
So in the end buying a foreign car supports American auto works just as well as buying an American car does. Plus its not the consumers faults that the American car industry screwed itself by promising to much to the unions and the result is obvious with the sub par quality of american cars because they have to squeeze every last cent they can make from the consumer to compensate for the union.
But although some of you idea is miss based, your on a good track with the thought process. Anyone looking at the state of capitilism in America can easily see that every company has started to just try and extort everything they possibly can out of the consumer. The laws of how business works was great for back in the day, but back in the day corporations didnt span accros the country and because of the lax laws then companies today are able to take advantage of to many loop holes that in the end only hurt the consumer. Its a serious problem that needs to be looked at IMO.