Random As Rhyme

Today I was cursing on my way to hockey today and I saw on the back of a Ford escape a bumper sticker that read “Lost Your Job Yet? Keep buying Foreign” it was sandwiched between two war support ribbons. As I  up-shifted my Mazda (who is was in bed with Ford) I thought to myself damn this car is going to cost me my job right?

Wrong.

I hate bumper stickers, they are an ugly way to get an often incorrect opinion/statement/propaganda/gibberish across to people who are not effected by whatever witty quip you are flaunting about.

I have owned a few cars in my day, 3 to be exact, one domestic two foreign. To be more specific, one German, one American, and my current is Japanese. By no surprise the American wound up on the bottom in terms of reliability, fun to drive, and fit and finish but that thing was damn curse and deserves an entire blog of it’s own.

It would be entirely to easy to ridicule domestic cars for their turdiness (Aztec anyone?) but if Mr Escape owner were to look at the readily available facts foreign car manufactures DO employ Canadians, and not just in retail but, also the manufacturing sector.

Honda has plants in Alliston Ontario and Markham Ontario, and Toyota has plants in Cambridge and Woodstock, and both are going to continue expanding into Canada, and probably no doubt have plants in the states.

Now I can hear Johnny Escape screaming ” My uncle Will lost his job because of people damn buying foreign cars!”. That sucks, really, I am not an ass, losing your job and supporting 2.5 kids on one income must be tough, especially when one of your kids its just the bottom half. However he didn’t loose his job just because of foreign cars.

Like most things in this word there is more to this issue than meets the eye (Transformers references are awesome), the economy is hurting right now, and the reasons why people are loosing there jobs are far too complicated to be fit onto a “witty” bumper sticker.

But hey, you can always