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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-11 04:14 AM
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Why should you buy a domestic car vs. a foreign car?
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I've heard the argument here that we should not buy from GM/Ford/Chrysler....usually with statements like "Well the Ford X is made in Mexico and the Toyota X is made in Indiana!!!" (which of course, is just one car and one example, designed to paint an inaccurate picture). There is also a surprising amount of anti-union sentiment attached to some of these posts.

Well, here's a study which shows you why you should buy from domestic automakers:

www.levelfieldinstitute.org/files/press/july_study.pdf



Domestic cars, and their parts, that are made in the United States are made with union labor. And clearly, even the "least domestic job-creator" domestic car company (GM) creates more jobs per 1000 cars sold than the "most domestic job-creator" foreign car company (BMW)! And the jobs are mostly union.

Buy union made cars from domestic companies, and support American UNION jobs!

http://www.uaw.org/cars
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