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- From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
- Subject: Re: Whining about buying American cars
- References: <1992Nov20.134043.16084@bnr.ca> <By301s.ABC@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov22.230642.17579@bnr.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:50:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.230642.17579@bnr.ca> dclayton@bnr.ca (Don Clayton) writes:
- >In article <By301s.ABC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast) writes:
-
- >|> C'mon Don, wouldn't you rather feed a kid from Halifax NS than
- >|> Halifax, NC? All else being equal. I would certainly favor kids in the US
- >|> to Canada in this case, all else equal again. Nothing personal, just gotta
- >|> look out for #1 and all that.
- >|>
- >|> Chintan Amin
- >
- >Onto the soap box :
- >
- >No, I'd rather feed all the kids. Failing that I'll let the system (i.e. Capatalism
- >with some social programs) handle it. I'm not going to selectively choose which ones
- >live and which ones die based on what flag they live under. Look out for number one
- >means you, your family, your relatives, your friends, etc., not those that fly the
- >same flag.
- >
- >Patriotism sucks! It leads to wars, hate and racism.
- >
- >Getting of the soap box.
- >
- >Don Clayton
-
- (ON SOAPBOX)
- Thanks for the soapbox:
-
- First notice no ignorant attacks on your flag/baseball joke.
-
- Well, I guess you are entitled to your own opinion, and, I agree that
- patriotism maybe bad, but here in the US, and I'm sure in Canada, we're faced
- with
- our companies shipping jobs to foriegn soil, and our workers sure can't go to
- Mexico or Taiwan or Germany et. al. to work. It just isn't feasable, so when
- you see a good car, produced in the US by US workers and a US company, and it
- is competetive with foreign products, (such as Saturn, Taurus, Mark VIII, STS,
- to name a few) you should buy it over the Japanese/German/Korean/Mexican/
- Australian/Canadia/Britsh... You get the picture, car. It is an added
- incentive to buy.
-
- Frankly, I'd like to think that is what everyone does. Now, since
- you said that patriotism starts wars... and you're Canadian:
-
- "Better the pride that resides in a citizen of the world,
- Than the pride that divides when a colourful rag is unfurled."
- ----Neil Peart---
-
- Ah, but only if life were as simple as a song...
-
- (OFF SOAPBOX)
- Anyone want this soapbox...?
-
- --
- "The Clergy Dazzle us with Heaven or they Damn us into Hell" Billy Bragg!!!!!
- IIIII L L IIIII NNNNN IIIII Chintan Amin c-amin1@uiuc.edu DEPT of E.E.
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- IIIII LLLL LLLL IIIII N N IIIII GO TARHEELS GO CAPITALS GO COWBOYS
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