Who really cares?

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Originally posted by Mr 5 0
I buy American when possible and if I have a choice, which isn't often as so many internal parts of many applicances and so on all have foreign-manufactured components, but I do what I can in that area.

I'm a free market believer and I don't buy $25,000. cars or $2,000 computers or a $350. TV based on what contributions the manufacturer made to the 9/11 victims fund.

Charity is just that, charity. A huge corporation that donates a million or two to a charity doesn't even feel it, it's not 'their' money, it comes out of corporate profits and as has been stated, it's mostly just public relations. Nice, but not all that meaningful, compared to some $9.-per-hour guy who takes $20. out of his gas money to give to the same fund.
That's real charity.

We're all free to buy from whomever we wish based on any critiria we chose to impose. No problem with that.

Personally, I don't use corporate giving as a guide to buying. Many very popular American companies give lots of money to homosexual groups, anti-second-amendment groups and feminist groups. If I boycotted all of them, I wouldn't buy anything. It gets crazy and I simply refuse to go down that road of making purchase decisions based on political stands or charity contributions of the manufacturer. That's my decision.

Very well put. Personally, I think that people should buy cars based on performance, fuel economy, price, or some other criteria involving the car itself. The money that was "donated" like mentioned before, serves as a tax break and is only a drop in a bucket compared to the profit margins that those manufacturers made. If you want to buy a car based on donations, your next vehicle should be a Hyundai....there profit margin is probably only better than Daewoo's and Suzuki's auto sales. I also want to point out a few things....Mitsu is part owned by DaimlerChrysler, Audi and Porsche are owned by Volkswagon, Isuzu is owned by GM, Fiat has a "strategic alliance" with GM, and Daewoo is recovering from bankruptcy. Have a great day