[Jamo]

They bring them there Japanese or German doctors to America when they opened their plants here? Do the American retirees who work in the American plants have to retire within site of Mt. Fuji or the Black Forest?

In other words, it's not really relevant when you compare apples grown in America to apples grown in America.

As to products built across the seas...they get to our shores somehow. Seems that's an added expense. We can try to match up each country's ability to serve the global market all we want. Fact is...our companies are sucking right now, as they have several times in the past. Screw what Chrysler did in the 80s...since then they've been owned by a German company and now a private group of investors and they got their hand out again.