Buying Power

Every penny you spend empowers someone. Every penny you spend hurts some other company and deprives someone of income and potentially a job. Buy American, buy Texan, buy Montgomery county, buy Spring - buy here.
It's not easy. I drive a Japanese car - a car built by a publicly traded company by workers in "El Estados Unidos" and other places. The company is owned by humans all over the planet - many of them in the United States. Sure, you can rationalize anything you want if you try hard enough, but buying American is hard. I am trying harder.
I tried to buy an American car. Next time I will. I drove American when gas was $1.50 a gallon. At $3 it was a hybrid, at $4 it was another Japanese four cylinder. As much as I like to sit up straight in the vehicles I drive, maybe a craned neck in a Chevy Cobalt is doing the right thing for the country.