American Workers

I just heard Dave Sinclair, the car dealer, talking about buying American. And for the most part I agree. However when you buy American these days, it seems like it truly only profits the executives in this country. It is my belief that it in the larger sense it is more important to buy vehicles that are built/assembled here. The reason is because then American workers get paid so they can support other businesses in their local communities. I think it is truly the American worker we need to support now. American CEO have repeatedly shown they do not care about their employees only lining their pockets. In many instances I believe they have shown little concern for the future to extract every little bit of profit now. Stephen Covey talks about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, to extract the eggs now but killing off any future production. That is what it appears American business is doing now.

While Dave Sinclair points out that with foreign named companies the profits go overseas that is not entirely true several foreign companies are in some instances controlled by American companies. My Mazda B3000 comes off the same assembly line as the Ford Ranger because Ford owns a significant portion of Mazda and this is only one example.

So my point is we need to support American workers because it is evident American business will not. If you do not believe me ask a Chrysler employee from the plant in Fenton or maybe ask Dave Sinclair why American business is keeping Canadians employed while laying off American workers.