Would you?
40,000 US soldiers died in Korea (my uncle Genio (R.I.P.) lost his hearing in one ear, his best friend died in front of him, and he came back an alcoholic), 40,000 US soldiers are stationed there protecting them against themselves (this is going back to the late 1980s, so my numbers might be off on the latter).
A Ford Escort, introduced as basically a more afordable car, cost twice as much to buy in South Korea than it did here. Who in South Korea is going to pay luxury car dollars for something that's existence and marketing is as a cheap model?
There are stores, or at least were (I don't know, I tried looking it up a few years ago, couldn't find anything about it), in Japan that sell Japanese-made products they were made in Japan by Japanese companies, exported to the US for sale, bought by other Japanese companies and imported back into Japan so they can be sold in these Japanese shops for cheaper than it would cost to buy the same exact items that never left Japanese shores. That's how heavily subsidized Japanese products are. All those awesome Japanese cars that are great values are actually high end automobiles in Japan, going for way higher prices there than they do to sell here.
That's going back to the 1980s too.
I've been talking about this since the '80s, before your parents were even born.
You been talking about this since last week.
So me flipping your "would you" question back to you is strictly rhetorical, because we both know you never would, because you've never had, and the only reason why you now say you will is because you were told by Trump to a week ago. A week ago.
What's old is new again.
Ronald Reagan (he was a US president back then. Our first senile president, btw, biggest coke dealer in history, started the Crack Epidemic and started Al Qaeda) also pushed foreign manufacturers to open up factories here.
Sound familiar?
As a result it became even easier and cheaper to buy Japanese cars, etc, in America and that speeded up the demise of American companies. He had this Made in America campaign, and eventually we all stopped talking about it because basically made it America meant an American company put their label on something that was made by foreigner corporations either abroad or here. That's why cars all look alike now. Because they are.
What's new is old again,,,
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