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Old 10-29-2009, 11:22 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Summa that right, summa it not.

The Americans didn't do EVERYTHING wrong, and the furreners didn't do EVERYTHING right.

But yeah, basically, the Americans thought customer loyalty to them would go on forever no matter how much they dropped the ball. Just like in politics, there's those 20%ers that will believe in the most idiotic of B.S., just because that's how they are.

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The customer is always right, even when he or she is wrong. Ultimately we will have to pay the price of our collective short sightedness.
Now that is the basic nugget of wisdom. We can decry stupid things like Hummers and Expeditions and Armadas but if nobody wanted them and nobody bought them... nobody would build them.

Note... Armadas. And Sequoias and Tundras and whatever. Even Ridgelines. All these "superior" foreign companies building junk for us that is no more efficient than the domesstic product.
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