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Posted June 12, 2009
I still love Detroit Iron.
Once there was the “War to End All Wars,” and then along came another one. So they had to rename the first one WW1, and the second became WW2. We had the Great Depression, and now we are in a Great Recession. As you may have heard, history repeats itself. Germany and Japan make great cars. Very popular. They are not better than Detroit's, but good nonetheless. It seems that among certain population segments the fashionable thing to do is buy a foreign car because all your friends do. I am not big on herd thinking. But you recall, Germany and Japan were not always our great trading partners. Far from it. If we continue to buy all our cars from Germany and Japan and let our knowledge, technology, and ability to make our own cars and trucks, what will happen if history repeats itself and Germany and Japan one day are not our great trading partners? What would our country be without our ability to make vehicles? Now we are losing our autmotive industry because we have chosen to buy cars made by Japanese and German companies. We have only ourselves to blame. All cars do the same thing, ferry us and our stuff around. The rest is just some story we tell ourselves, something someone else has told us. Our country needs an automotive industry, and we need to buy American cars. Otherwise we will have no American Automobile Industry and will have only ourselves to blame for it. That is why I love Detroit Iron . . . and you should, too.
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