I bang this drum every once in awhile, but its sound gets dimmer and dimmer. I drive a Ford Escort and keep it running with a good, hard-working mechanic who happens to be "from the neighborhood" - we go WAY back.
It's certainly hard to buy only American these days. It's hard to even buy UK goods, which I will always support. You know things are bad when a Barbour item is made in a Pacific Rim or former USSR country.
I resigned myself to the fact that at times it's impossible to buy US/UK a couple years ago. But I still have a couple rules:there's one place I WILL NEVER buy goods from and that's CHINA. Their goods are shoddy and they are still an enemy, although you wouldn't know it by all the cuddling our governments do.
As far as motor vehicles go I tell everybody I can that if they must buy a Japanese vehicle just make sure to NEVER buy a Mitsubishi. During WWII they used captured Americans as slave labor. This is factual, not internet conspiracy crap. Dig around and research it.
These are horrible times. Governments don't really rule, corporations do. How much longer before our consumer based society cracks down the spine and falls belly up? The number of have-nots increases every day and will soon overwhelm the haves. With no jobs and only social programs and crime to live on, how long do you think we can last?
I could go on and on, but why bother? I come here to talk and read about poetry in wood and steel, to feed my head, heart and soul.
