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> it's really something to be grateful for that America is still a place where a car company can be built

we should be proud we can manage to do something we've already been doing for 100 years?

Yes, we should indeed be proud that we can still do it over from scratch with new technology, since the past fifty years implied pretty strongly that we actually couldn't anymore, and certainly I don't see new car companies springing up anywhere else besides China.

What's more, by that clever little formulation of yours, you can cynically dismiss so many things of value. Why be proud of anything anyone does here unless you've never seen anything like it before on the face of this earth, right?

I think he's referring to the fact that most of the manufacturing once done in the US has been off-shored to China etc.

Why pay X for something if you can get it for X/3?

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