Peg the Hypocrisy Meter: About that Infiniti…
Debbie Wasserman “Sgt.” Schultz drives an Infiniti FX35. Nice ride. However, she also thinks that Republicans (at least the ones who can think) were against the GM and Chrysler bailouts because “If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars.”
So tell us, Debbie dear, who made you buy the foreign car? Did some e-e-e-evil Republican force you to? Or did you, like most people, make an economic decision based on what you thought was best for you?
(Via Timebomb 2000)
Who's to say what exactly is foreign? Just for an example, Toyota is a Japanese-owned company, but they build the Tundra & Tacoma trucks…wait for it!…San Antonio, Texas. Meanwhile, the Ford Flex, Crown Vic, & a few other FoMoCo models are put together at the company's Oakville, ONTARIO plant.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a maroon.
And I drive a Japanese car that was built in Indiana, but it's a foreign car to me. The Japanese company just happens to have a plant here. A Ford would be a foreign car in Japan even if the plant were in Osaka.
Point taken, but I think part of Schultz's implication was that if you drive a "foreign" car you're not supporting the American economy or helping to create American jobs, and that's quite clearly a load of crap.