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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:32 AM
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If a foreign owned company is located in the USA and has nothing but American workers
Is the product it manufactures an American product or foreign?
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:34 AM
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1. If it is assembled in this country, it is American.
Never mind where most of the parts came from.
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:37 AM
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2. Thanks to corporate governments, its a fungible global product.
It belongs to no one but corporations - unless it spills or poisons us, then its ours.

:puke:
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:39 AM
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3. Do Honda and Toyota
both only employ American workers in the USA ? That may help answer your question
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:48 AM
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5. How about FOX News and the Wall Street Journal?
Does that answer your question?
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:57 AM
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7. I wasn't me who asked the question
it was you.
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:40 AM
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4. I don't care who owns the company
as long as I'm supporting American workers, unionized if possible.
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SocialistLez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 10:03 AM
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8. Same here to a degree
As long as the company isn't funding terrorist organizations or anything like that, I could care less as long as American workers (unionized preferable) are helped.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 10:29 AM
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9. Oh, they won't be unionized.
But I see you're already willing to forego that.
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 10:36 AM
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10. I'm not willing to do that, actually.
I won't under any circumstance buy a non-UAW car, as an example.
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-10 09:54 AM
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6. For GDP and GNP purposes the production in the US as added to US GNP/GDP. n/t
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