Priceless.

 

Well, you managed not to use phony/corny quotes this time. So thats progress.

Now on to your point:
Defending your country does not make you an ignorant redneck. Hating on some guy in an import for dumbarsed reasons does. Clear distinction, which nobody but YOU muddied up. You can advocate buying American products without being a redneck. I do it all the time.Example: I simply dont go to Walmart. yeah it made a bunch of jobs in my ommunity. jobs that dont really pay a living wage and eliminated jobs that would have had local businesses provided them. My parts are American, and none of the China-bay crap. I try to shop farmers markets and local business as much as possible. If I do get a new vehicle it'll likely be the RWD 2 seater MOPAR should have been building for the last 10 years (if they ever stop teasing) or the new F-Body. If I were to get an Evo I would be going used. Which (the used car market) BTW creates a ton of jobs here in the states.

Seriously. Dont pontificate about trade deficits. My mother is loosing her job to someone in India. In order to get another position in her company, she is going over there to TRAIN HER OWN REPLACEMENT. You might think you are passionate about this, but I'm betting you have not put your fist through a wall over it like I did a week ago. I'll bet you did not fantasize about putting a pipe through some *******'s head over it.

And yet...I dont have a problem with people buying what they want. This is America. And frankly if you look at the products coming out of Detroit these days they basicly stomp previous offerings in most ways. This whole economy will turn around. The weakening dollar will actualy encourage more production here. If you remember a few years ago, some leaders overseas were bitching and moaning about how a weaker dollar was hurting their exports to us. Bush basicly smiled and ignored them knowing full well that while inflation is not good, that aspect of it is just fine. And this country does not succeed by coercing people into buying X. Its gest on by simply out-competeing other nations. We got lazy and complacent, the effects are being felt, and now we are getting back into shape. That simple. The effect f this on cars is stuff like the new G8. It basicly hed its own with a BMW 5 Series in a recent comparo by a euro-worshipping mag. And I'm not talking just performance in a strait line. Im talking handling, and manners. They said that while its interior was not as good as a twice as expensive 5 series, it was right where it should be in the 30-40 thousand class of cars. When was the last time you heard that kind of description from the major auto-publications?

Screw it. I'm stirring up a hornets nest anyway for no gain. I'll just let it go.

 

First off, we all thank you for being the policeman of the kill section, and preventing me from making "phony/corny quotes" (am I allowed to use quotation marks when I am quoting you verbatim, or is that still verboten according to our high and mighty L.E.O ???)

Next, damn if I don't agree with almost all of your other points above.
I also have seen, firsthand, the destruction this economy has wrought.
I have probaly been even angrier than you about it, hence the attitude towards trade deficits and foreign products. Every little bit of buying our stuff vs. theirs (when there is even still a chioce) helps!!

But what is your answer when Detroit/U.S. manufacturers actually DO make a better product (as is the case now in some instances), and the sheeple American public STILL refuses to buy them over even higher priced imports?
My import brainwashing theory does not seem like such a far fetched, paranoid conspiracy theory then, does it??

But that still brings us to WHY, exactly, you defended the riceboy flyby????
Especially when you at least seem to be level-headed, informed, intelligent and fair most of the time.
Even more suprising since you want to gain credibility for serious/fast import people.
Just playing the devil's advocate, or "stirring the hornet's nest" (again, a verbatim) as you say, maybe??

 

Didn't post it originally, but to emphasize this guy was a ricer asshat, and not a simple car enthusiast, I ended up in front of him again further down the road, and he whipped into the median to pass a car (nearly took the guys front end off) to get next to me to run again, but at that point I had arrived at my turnoff.

Funny how the topic has changed from a humorous ricer incident to economy issues and outsourcing.

 

Yeah, sorry about that.

But unless I bring that into it, all of the generation rice kids start calling me ****, racist, etc, as their kneejerk defense.

Thanks for adding this last post as it shoots down ANY defense/explanation the fanbois may have had for his ricetard flyby.

 

its post like this that make the kill section fun...i get to read a kill story and then immediatly jump down a few posts and WITHOUT FAIL there's always some ricer-loving/mustang-loving/anti-fbody guy (whether you really are or not is irrelavent because that's how you come off and presentation in nine tenths) stirring the pot. the thread then steeply drops off into domestic vs. import, gm vs. ford, fbody vs. goat, "if this car has mods X,Y,Z the race would have been different" etc type argument.

then occasionally you get this kind of a thread which starts out like every other but turns into something very unique...in this case a discussion about US geo-political economics.

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its like dinner and a show around here...good kill to the OP BTW and, as always, ricers blow.

 

Yea, this thread has been more entertaining for me, than the "race" was.. Oh well can't please everyone, at least a few people took it for what it was worth, and didn't get thier panties all in a wad.

 

Yeah, that would have been pretty relevant. Because frankly to me it did not sound like much of a flyby. Had this been on there I would not have bothered posting what I did. To me it sounded like a lot of hating for no good reason. As with many things in life (I'm a pessimist), I'm glad to be wrong.

 

Maybe. It doesnt do me nor anyone else any good, which is why I'm canceling my account. Doubt I'll be missed. Boo Hoo.

 

Found my new sig quote, thanks Local....

 

I thought about using that as a sig too, but too late now.