Troy, for you to whine about American companies building some vehicles abroad, mostly for foreign markets by the way, and then hold up Toyota as an example of what American companies should be doing is ludicrous.  Consider only 10% of Toyota's employees are in the U.S. but they derive almost 40% of their revenues here.  At Honda, only 17% of their workforce is Americans yet they derive 54% of their revenues here.

If you want to talk about unfairness, you should be whining about 40% of Toyota's revenues coming from inside the U.S. yet only 10% of their employees are Americans.  GM, on the other hand, gets half its revenues outside of the U.S. but more than half of their workforce is here.  Seems that GM is doing a MUCH better job creating jobs for Americans than Toyota or Honda.  Ford and Chrysler are in the same situation as GM, more Americans are employed HERE than anywhere else on the globe.  Those are hard working, tax paying Americans.  Buy a Toyota and $9 of the $10 you spend are creating paychecks for non-Americans to be spent and invested OUTSIDE the U.S.  Doesn't sound very American to me.

Andy,

 

I think many American companies could show some economic patriotism by pulling their foreign investments and outsourced jobs back to America.  Just because you buy an American branded product doesn't make it American. Last year, as an example, the Toyota Camry was the most American car in America as far as assembly, part content and American labor goes. Based on this fact, what does that say for the patriotism of Detroit automakers who import their parts, assemble in foreign countries and invest in foreign labor?