Yes, thousands. Yet still he wonders.
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| Photograph by Tamara Keel |
The setup for this punchline is, the same tagger has been imploring on various walls and traffic-light boxes for years, "Don't buy Jap crap!" Now it appears he's realized his efforts may have been in vain.
I've tried to Buy American when/if I can. That's why one of my cars is a VW Passat (made in Chattanooga, TN), and the other is a Nissan Leaf (made in Smyrna, TN). One can't always avoid foreign vehicles, however: my 2001 Dodge Ram 2500 was made in Mexico.
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INdeed. Jim is right. "American" cars may be ***less*** American that "Japanese" or "German" cars.
ReplyDelete"Jap Scrap" is a cute little rhyme, but it tends to be the 'American*' companies that hate mechanics.
ReplyDelete*Chrysler mostly
Back in about 1984, I was driving a VW Rabbit Diesel and was at a friend's (Walt's)house. As it happened, Walt worked at GM's Hydramatic plant in Toledo, and one of his co-workers, Dale was visiting. Dale looked at my VW and muttered something about "damn foreign cars", so I pointed out that "My VW was made in Pennsylvania, by UAW workers. Our friend Walt's Chevy Celebrity was made in Canada; now who is driving the foreign car?" All Dale could reply was "mumble, mumble".
ReplyDeleteOne of the fellas in our pistol league drives a VW Jetta and was getting some grief from a friend who drives a Ford pickup. He looked the p/u over, then told his friend "I see both our vehicles were made in the same place". Said friend replied, "My Ford wasn't made in Germany!"; the reply was, "No both of ours were made in Mexico".