Lockjaw

I can understand what you are saying and I agree and all but in regards to the car thing,not to hijack the thread but to prove a point,it's not like American car companies are hunks of junk and the Japanese only put out super reliable automobiles across the board.
http://www.alldata.com/TSB/0459_mo.html
http://www.alldata.com/TSB/0441_mo.html
http://www.alldata.com/TSB/0424_mo.html
http://www.alldata.com/TSB/0425_mo.html

Those are all the recalls and service bulletins that were issued for Toyota,Nissan,Honda,and Hyundai. As you can see nobody is perfect it's just that when an American company has a recall it's really big news as opposed to some Japanese companies and their recalls it's basically ignored.
And as far as long term quality there are two Japanese companies that are above the big two American companies(BTW GM and Chevy are one company and Chrysler doesn't count anymore as they are owned by the Germans) and that's Honda and Toyota. Everybody else is as bad or WORSE. Nissan for example is a company a lot of people push as being quality and their cars are just as likely to be junk as a Ford.

And as far as can you consider those cars foregin cars even though they are built here? Yes. Because at the end of the day those profits are going back to Japan and not America. The jobs are going to be there regardless so the arguement of "they are employing Americans" doesn't really stand up. If all the people buying Civics were buying Foci there would be more Ford asssembly plants here in the States and possibly in our neighboring countries of Canada and Mexico. Which it greatly behooves us to have them with solid and stable economies as opposed to making Japan even richer.

So again not trying to come down on you but it's just not accurate or fair to say only American cars being sold in America would be a horrific thing on the level of large amounts of the workforce suddenly not showing up for work.
Just giving info.