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Re: where are cars manufactured
"Merritt Mullen" <mmullen8014@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:mmullen8014-C441DF.13452317042006@netnews.asp.att.net...[color=blue]
> In article <e20rbg$cr4@u1.netgate.net>,
> [email]geoffm@u1.netgate.net[/email] (Geoff Miller) wrote:
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>> No so fast, sez I. Two factors outweigh that. One, if the parts
>> (or a majority of the parts) are made in Japan and are only as-
>> sembled into a finished car in the U.S., then as far as I can see,
>> that makes it a Japanese car. And even more fundamentally, if the
>> company (say, Toyota) is Japanese, and the profits from these cars
>> are going to Japan, that *really* makes those cars Japanese.[/color]
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> The profits go to the share holders all over the world. But the REVENUES,
> which are much larger than the profits, mostly go the people who build the
> cars (in the form of wages), and they are American.
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> Merritt[/color]
Shhhh! Don't muddy the discussion with logic!
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Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)
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