Originally Posted by 1sicwrx

The point is, that they dump their crap on our shores for almost nothing while our manufacturers get stiffed. I should have clarified my opinion more eloquently, it's not just cheap cars getting dumped on our shores, it is also the auto unions sucking the companies dry, they are just as a big problem as the quality of American cars. GM and Ford pay way too much on a variety of social programs for their current employees, ex-employees, and retired employees, I read some figure that $2,000 is billed to every car built for health care costs alone. How can you have a profitable company when 2 grand is being chopped right out of the car as soon as it is built? Well, you can't. Your cars will be more expensive and less desirable, then no one will buy them, then the quality of the product will worsen, and then you will get hit with the label that the car brand is crap and the ability to rebound from bad publicity will take a life time no matter what you do. Our government should impose tariffs to make the market more competitive, why not? If it will benefit companies here in the U.S. then what is the problem. Every other country imposes taxes on our products so why can't we? The Japanese for example can build a car for a lot cheaper than an American manufactuer just in labor rates. Employees on the assembly lines here make good money and their benefits are even better, the poor guy in Japan/China/Korea works for a crap wage with a not so god health coverage plan meaning their company is not investing valuable money into the employee while our companies do, that alone takes away from the potential of building better cars, So f**k yeah we should tax them, to make us a more of a competitor here, America comes first, who cares what happens to companies from Korea. I know I don't.

Originally Posted by Sinister Subaru

It most definitely surprised me, that's for sure. IF GM can continue to surprise people then maybe they'll have a chance.....