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XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
From: pothead@snakebite.com
On 2025-08-07, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 15:09:54 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>
>>On 8/6/25 10:37 AM, Dark Brandon wrote:
>>> On 8/5/2025 10:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A 6-cyl Camaro ... what a WASTE ! Posing, but
>>>> with no meat behind it.
>>>>
>>>> As for the Vega - total crap 'economy' car. Everything
>>>> was sub-standard.
>>>
>>> That's when General Motors management took a dump on their loyal
>>> customers during the "Buy American" craze, forever pissing off people
>>> who had bought Chevy, Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac cars
>>> during that era. They fooled no one putting the Chevy bow tie on cheap
>>> Suzuki manufactured, tinny coffins on wheels, or on the Chevette.
>>>
>>> Ford produced those crappy 4 cylinder Mustangs and Cougars, along with
>>> some piece of shit version of the Bronco.
>>>
>>> Not to be forgotten is how Kodak continued selling Brownie cameras while
>>> Cannon, Minolta and other high quality Japanese camera manufacturers ate
>>> their lunch with 35 mm cameras sold cheap.
>>
>>
>> Oh yea, I remember the Cheap-Ass era.
>>
>> DO still own a Brownie ... but they don't make the
>> 620 film anymore.
>>
>> The power of imports ... this is when it really
>> started to bite us in the ass and when the Great
>> Offshoring trend for 'American' industries began.
>>
>>
>
> Who caused that?
Greedy corporations trying to please their stock holders.
--
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