I'm going on memory here but, my friends' 2010 Toyota Tundra has a decal on the door that says that 87% of the parts in this vehicle were mad in the USA. PARTS!, gentlemen. It was also BUILT here, employing Americans. Can Ford, Chevy or Dodge claim that 87% of the parts that comprise their respective vehicles were made here (USA)? I doubt it.
Like many others I prefer to buy American. But..............what IS American anymore? Simply that the company's headquarters are here?
We own/run eight John Deere tractors, combines and cotton pickers, all built in America. What's more American than John Deere, right? Oh, please! Am I to get bent out of shape because Germany's Bosch builds a better injection pump, and Japan's NipponDenso builds a better starter than is built here? Not me, because I am not a hypocrite. If I grow cotton that ends being sold to China, should I boycott them and only sell my cotton to a textile mill in America? Tell me where there IS one, anymore. If my peanuts are exported to Singapore, or Denmark am I to get upset and stop producing them?
King Brown said it right, this is a global economy now. You can either face up to it and use it to your advantage, or you can spend the rest of your life being miserable because you can't buy a camouflage shirt made in America anymore. It is what it is, and wishing it was what it ain't won't make it go away.
SRH
