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Old 03-07-2014, 09:54 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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OP, what compooter you typing this on?
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Old 03-07-2014, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Yeah, but we made them work, and al Gore invented the internet.
Funny...but while we invented the network (i.e. DARPANET) the Web was invented by them nasty Brits at CERN.
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Old 03-07-2014, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Our Nuclear plants don't melt?

Real men = old school construction workers working out in the elements from freezing temperatures to blistering heat with hands swollen from their toil. Ah, the good ole days.

I am impressed with the Asian bamboo scaffolds. However, we were the leader in the industrial revolution, and our technics are used throughout the world.
Dude...the Statue of Liberty was built by the French.
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:03 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Dude...the Statue of Liberty was built by the French.
LOL! Yeah, it was a bit of a gift.
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Cold Springs, NV
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Funny...but while we invented the network (i.e. DARPANET) the Web was invented by them nasty Brits at CERN.
Yes, but we helped.

Among the many technological achievements that resulted from the funding of the Gore Bill, was the development of Mosaic in 1993,[SIZE=2][5][/SIZE][SIZE=2][10][/SIZE] the World Wide Web browser software which is credited by most scholars as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s:

High Performance Computing Act of 1991 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:06 AM
 
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Or clothing made in a,erica. Without imports we would all be nudists sitting in homes without televisions
We could all wear military uniforms, those are made here (only because we can pay the blind well below minimum wage).

I like it, we will have us labor control our fields, we will all wear the states uniform and drive the states cars. We will live in the states housing and wait in the states breadlines.

All hail nationalism and down with those capitalist imperialist dogs!

Or not.

You know, cause that method failed, pretty hard, really hard actually.
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:06 AM
 
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Our Nuclear plants don't melt?
Really? So Three Mile Island was in this Foreign you keep referring to?

I'll address the rest later when I'm at my American computer (Dell) that was manufactured everywhere but in America.
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:12 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Dude...the Statue of Liberty was built by the French.
But they weren't very manly.
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Old 03-07-2014, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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If the car I buy is made by honest workers earning a living wage and supporting their family, that's good enough for me. Why would I care what country they live in?

OP, you have given me absolutely no reasons why I SHOULD buy an American car -- only reasons why YOU DO buy one. Plese be more careful when composing your subject lines. Thank you for your opinion, but I do not share it.

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Old 03-07-2014, 10:13 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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American companies are very good at paying their execs big bucks while moving manufacturing and supply sources as far away from Americans as they can. I love the fact that ignorant nationalists are cheering on high paying execs for stamping an American name on a foreign made product while spitting on the blue collar American families that are currently making the most American vehicles on the market for foreign manufacturers like Toyota in factories on American soil.

At the end of the day, I buy whatever car is best to achieve my goals within my available budget. I have zero brand loyalty and will likely own vehicles from many different manufacturers in my lifetime.
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