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:: Saturday, December 11, 2004 ::
Ariz. shrimp just prawns in global chess game By JEFF SMITH, Tucson Citizen
But NAFTA and other worlds-without-borders trade agreements have sold out American workers, with the result that Americans wear T-shirts and jeans made in offshore islands south of China, and drive cars and trucks that come here, not by Interstate 94 out of Michigan, but by freighter out of Japan. You want to hear some irony? My daughter, who loves to rag me about my neolithic patriotism but is a flag-waver herself, as long as the flag bears the label of the American Textile Workers Union, was getting on me years back about the new truck I was about to choose. She was of the opinion I should buy American. I agreed.
And after considerable searching and failing to find an acceptable product, I finally found the one and only truck on the market entirely made in America, of every itty-bitty part that was itself made in the land of the free and the home of the brave:
A Toyota Tundra. Made in Indiana. Every other pickup on the road, be it Ford or Chevy, Dodge or Hummer, has a plethora of parts made in Mexico or somewhere farther afield.------------------------------------------- posted 9:27 AM :: reference link ::
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