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A friend of mine proudly told me he bought a Lexus for his wife not knowing that I was an American plant worker. I explained to him that it was un-American to buy foreign vehicles and that American car companies were producing the same top quality vehicles. He refuted this, stating that Lexus, Toyota, Honda, Nissan were the safest, most sturdy built vehicles, which is not true. Starting in 2007, Ford received more initial quality survey awards from J. D. Power and Associates than any other automaker. Five of Ford's vehicles ranked at the top of their categories and fourteen vehicles ranked in the top three.
Toyota employs 7,000 Americans at 5 plants while GM recently was forced to downsize from 68,000 Americans at 47 plants to 30,000 Americans at 34 plants. Yes, this is a direct result of the unconscious stupidity of the board of directors that ran these corporations into the ground with Hummer, Escalade and Expedition brands. In order to control its skyrocketing labor costs (the most expensive in the world), Ford Motor company and the United Auto Workers, representing approximately 46,000 hourly workers in North America, agreed to a historic contract settlement in November 2007 giving the company a substantial break in terms of its ongoing retiree health care costs and other economic issues. When compared to Toyota whom employs 70,000 Japanese nationals and only 7000 American Workers I will continue to support American Worker with a purchase of a FORD or GM product.

So, if Ford and GM employ 140,000 American Workers at their plants and hold stake in numerous companies within their supply chains which could potentially support 250,000 Americans with jobs...Why are Americans not supporting those American Workers by buying the below cars made here in the USA?

2010 Lincoln MKS

2010 Buick Lacrosse

2010 Cadillac CTS

2010 Cadillac SRX