More De-Industrialization

Autobeat Daily quotes New Delhi’s Economic Times that Indian SUV manufacturer, Mahindra & Mahindra is in talks with Chrysler LLC about acquiring the Jeep unit. Why does that just sound wrong? Jeep is the American icon of 4x4’s. It is the original, to sell it off is akin to selling your child into slavery. Beyond that, why are we not exporting jeeps instead of exporting the jobs to manufacture the jeeps? Chrysler, like Ford and GM and many other “American” manufacturers, already do a huge amount of their engineering and manufacturing overseas. American auto parts supplier TRW has their engine component divisional headquarters in Germany. How then is this an “American” company? Why do we as a nation permit this constant exporting of our jobs? This is national suicide. What no one on earth has been able to do, beat the USA , we are doing to ourselves. I hate to sound like a democrat, but corporate greed, or a republican, combined with a punitive tax system is killing our country.