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And We Wonder Why American Manufacturing Stinks?

A rhetorical question? Yes and no. Now I'm no fan of Toyota's cars (Honda's had my number since the 1976 Accord came out -- it took only 3 years to actually find one to buy), but it is obvious that Toyota's respect for its workers results in better designed and better-built vehicles. Clearly the work atmosphere at Toyota's plants is the polar opposite of U.S. automakers plants. And some pundits actually wonder why the U.S. auto industry continues to go down the tubes? I doubt if our workers are any less competent than the autobuilders at Toyota in Japan. But it's pretty darned obvious that the executives who continue to make the short-sighted foolish decisions to push gas guzzlers on the American public (with a 50 year history of brainwashing the public that we need faster, heavier, gas guzzlers) are the same fools who treat their employees like dirt while they're making off with the high salaries and benefits. What a shame. Our national obsession with satisfying Wall Street is destroying our manufacturing industries and making us increasingly dependent on other nations -- that could turn against us in a split second -- to build what we consume.

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