On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:40:27 -0500, salty wrote:

On 20 Feb 2008 12:21:01 -0600, Dave wrote:

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:47:46 +0000, Gordon said:

It was assembled in Tennessee, not built. The parts came from Japan
and the profits went back to Japan!

LOL.

And they built the factories with concrete and bricks imported from
Japan, imported genuine Japanese managers, assembly line workers and
maintenance people, fed them all with nothing but imported Japanese sushi
and rice flown in on Japanese Airlines, and paid them in yen deposited
only in Japanese banks, right?

Check the parts content of a Chevy, Ford or Chrysler.

Thanks for quoting "Dave" gentlemen...reminds me again why he's in my
idiot bin. Funny how in little minds like his, it's okay for GM, Ford and
Daimler-Chrysler to trample each other in their haste to employ Mexicans,
while shipping the profits back to the US or Germany, but the Japanese
don't get to play the same capitalist game. Dimwit.

But as to Cuba, yes Fidel has had his time. The majority of the Cuban
people revere him and who's to argue with the will of the people and what
his revolution has done for the quality of their lives? And who
will not be aware of the pain and suffering caused by the inhuman enmbargo
imposed by a succession of hide-bound ideologues in White House.
America's shameful behaviour in this regard may see American business
excluded from Cuba's next economic revolution. In 2008, with the
economic power of Europe, the MidEast and China, who needs $US$ any
longer? Cuba will evolve it's institutions in time to look like the
social democracies that populate the UN's list of top countries in which
to live.