Who’s on first and who owns what? 2/15

Go test drive a Saturn, which is owned by GM. But GM is half way down the road to bankruptcy. Yet, they own a small part of the former Datsun which is now Nissan who are doing very well due to efforts of General Douglas Mac Arthur after A-Bombing their plants and Mitsubishi which were making Jap Zero’s which blew the hell of the US Navy in Hawaii.

Of course there is Chysler which the US government helped bailed out of debit and was purchased 40 cent on the dollar by Daimler a German company. The US government under the Marshall plan helped rebuilt all their factories after World War Two. Now they want to sale us Chysler back at $2.50 on the dollar.

Then there is Ford Motor Company which purchased a Swedish and English car manufacturer. Their only problem was that they could not get the own stuff together and jumped in bed with Mazda only to mess things up with the Mazda people.

Whose left? Toyota, Honda, Subaru - all of which have built assembly plants in our Southland. The south shall rise again. Then thrown in our petro problems into the mix all of which leads us to one question with a known answer… Who is the biggest chump in the "world" economy?

Sure there are other off auto brands, Rolls, Bentleys and Beamers but let’s talk reality and after all a car is only the means of getting from point a to b.

Oh, you want to talk style? I get it at the barbershop and our Resale Clothing store. Not that I am a homer but I know who owns my clothing store and the barbershop. Shop American for a car? There is no way you can't!

Yesterday, I was out spring cleaning our trail by-cycles and looked at the name plate, "Trek" The bikes are good old Wisconsin products, right? Wrong, the frame was made in China, the shifters in Japan, and the seats in Mexico. I guess you should know what you park your rear end – products from Europe, South America, or Asia. AS for my rear end it’s stamped "made in the USA."