Money Talks ! Prices talk ! Quality talks ! Very few people will buy a domestic product just
BECAUSE it's domestic. One only has to look at the old British car manufacturing
companies. British Leyland threw out nothing but rubbish when compared to cars
manufactured overseas.

Right on. American companies are still trying to catch up to the Japanese. Must say, though, Toyota's are reliable and affordable. I live on an island where there are a lot of pickup trucks. I see many Toyota pickups that date back to the 80's still being driven and cherished for their reliability.

On another note, China is going full guns on its space program. You know, those stupid Chinese another poster is always talking about. Here's an excerpt from an article by Christoper Mims:

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program is led by Ouyang Ziyuan, a science-fiction futurist to rival David Brin and Ray Kurzweil. His first career was in geology and mines, and he sees the moon as a long-term solution to China's problems with energy and resource scarcity. He has pointed out that the moon is full of iron, and it's also full of helium-3, which can be used to power a nuclear fusion reactor. That's big thinking. With China mining the moon while we twiddle our thumbs at Cape Canaveral, we'll be forced to buy lunar minerals from them along with everything else on our shopping list.