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You never see this on American news but the Japanese have been protesting the American military presence in their country for decades.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247281/Thousands-protest-Tokyo-U-S-military-presence-Japan.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247281/Thousands-protest-Tokyo-U-S-military-presence-Japan.html

And most people don't know that if an American service man tries to enter a bar in japan, he's refused entry -can't even get in the door --because the Japanese hate foreigners. Only a fool would buy a car from someone who hates them. Think those Toyota gas pedals are sticking by accident?? Think again, Gaigene!


JD
Ukiah, CA
- Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 18:33:55 (MET)

To all you lame Jap car fans. How cheap will all those imports be after their government subsidies the defeat of all their American competition? If you want to see how they put the screws to you without competition, just try and buy a boom box in Mexico. It was $400 U.S. in Mexico, and $80 in the States. If they will screw over a third world country, wait until you have no choice. Besides lets not talk about Global wages. How can you honestly expect American workers to make the same as workers in Japan, China, or Korea. The comparison is flawed and it will be the death of the American economy. They are already working on exporting your service jobs out of the country too. Our health records are in India, we import engineers, and who needs an American insurance broker if we can do it over the internet and save a buck. Every type of worker can be devalued and that is the problem with the foreign car drivers mentality.


right wing union member? <jamesportola@hotmail.com>
California
- Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 03:19:07 (MET)

You know,
some history making, global changing markers in time have begun with as few as a hand full of people. And, usually those folks were not the creme de la creme aristocracy. George Washington didn't have a college education, yet he was the pivotal anchor of what has become the world's most successful democracy.
Your willingness to create a website and to begin to articulate the details of what's wrong with all this foreign subversion of the US just needs a little refinement and polish, and it could become the rock foundation of putting the USA back, in fact as well as in the popular opinion, as the greatest nation on earth. You are to be commended on making a great start. Your instincts are exactly correct. Now we need a finance and research wizard to put some figures into your script. For example, to assign monetary values to the gov't assists the foreign car makers get, and to assign $ value to the costs the american car makers must spend for EPA compliance, etc, and to track the profits that go to Japan and other car component makers, so that Americans can see that when they send their car cash to Toyota, they are really stabbing themselves in the back. I'd love to see a wave start, and be anchored on the real facts, and empty my sister's drive way of all those damn toyotas!!


drive
- Sunday, December 06, 2009 at 14:47:46 (MET)

It as if I made this site. Ive used all these arguments with my friends who drive riceburners. I'm a Gm guy but ive grown to like anything American. In twenty years all the camry's and accords will be metal blocks in the junkyard.


GM Guy
- Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 23:58:37 (MET)

One I read this statement, your web site lost credibility.
*****
Plus their plants are always in the lower-wage states. These circumstances conspire to allow foreign car manufacturers to produce cars at less cost, even here in the U.S., giving them an unfair advantage.
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So it is all about the wages not the job? We are now in a global competition and companies need to keep costs down. If a company build a facility in lower wage states, that is great. It creates jobs here in America. It is better than sending the job to Mexico or out sourcing to India. Maybe is Corporate America and the Unions weren't so greedy, costs could be competitive.


Tony
- Friday, August 21, 2009 at 15:00:33 (MET)

Why would anyone drive a foreign POS? Damn things are so small a full size American can't stretch out his legs. I'll admit that imports are decent vehicles, but tell me again what country invented the automobile? Oh yeah, WE DID. Now I'm a GM man so naturally I beleive they are the best on the road. I've had four, because all the other ones are in heaven due to dumbAsses that can't drive. Most of which are not American. Im a pickup man. So when import makers build a HD pickup even remotely comprable to a GM, Ford, Or Dodge they can all kiss my arse. And which semis are the best? That's right American brands peterbuilt, Mack, and freightshaker. Volvo can't touch those three. And if everyone in America would make. Contious decsion to buy American, we wouldn't even be going through this recession. And if we buy American it brings the jobs back over here and the conser gets a better product. As with tools we just make better shit than foreigners. A question for all you gearheads out there. When was the last time you chose to buy a tool set made anywhere but the USA?


Dustin Walker <dk_walker_25@yahoo.com>
Texas, in the BEST country in the world
- Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 07:46:53 (MET)

Why would I want to drive an american POS car built by a fat-ass lazy american auto worker who comes into work in flip-flops jean shorts and a t-shirt?


JapFan
- Tuesday, August 04, 2009 at 22:55:04 (MET)

I love your site. It was so great to find someone else who feels the way I do. It all started 30 years ago when I was in Japan. I said to my Japanese associate, "Where are the American cars?" He said they were too expensive. All I saw was Japanese cars. Now is this fair trade? If Americans had bought American we would not see our car companies going under. It is the Americans fault.


Larry Davidson <larrybebop@comcast.net>
- Wednesday, July 08, 2009 at 21:06:08 (MET)

Good riddance to bad rubbish. GM and Chrysler. Typical right wing fundie wacko and your fear of globalization. After my GM Saturn dies I'm getting a Toyota Prius, the best car ever made. Those Japanese are smart people and I respect them.


ABB
- Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 13:53:41 (MET)

Citing an isolated case is exagerating the issue. So what if a few Toyotas are made in California? The vast majority of the Toyotas manufactured in the U.S. are assembled in the low-wage Southern states and employ less than half the workers than the equivalent American plant. Don't be fooled, Americans. Toyota is costing you jobs and money and destroying any legacy you hope to leave behnd for your children.


Jim
- Monday, May 11, 2009 at 17:30:33 (MET)

One of the reasons I bought the car I have now is because it was made in the United States. It was made in a state considered to be among the most liberal, have a high cost of living, and has some of the strictest environmental laws in the world: California. It was made in an old GM plant, right alongside Pontiacs. My car is a Toyota Corolla. It makes me happy that I have a car that was made in America by Americans. The workers who made it spend their pay in America where it can help the economy so who's going to say MY car isn't American?? It was made in America by Americans so don't even try to say it's foreign! You need to rethink your position, take down this website, and support your country by buying a Toyota!
Steve O.
Worcester, MA

- Friday, May 08, 2009 at 21:49:25 (MET)

Yeah thats right the japanese people are screwing over americans one by one. They dont give a damn about anyone but themselves there needs to be a limit on jap cars imported here
Pontiac455
DENVER

- Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 01:12:44 (MET)

nice site
Roger

- Monday, April 20, 2009 at 16:11:42 (MET)