LoadIt,
You're definitely entitled to your opinion, and I respect it. I think it's important to consider, though, that industrial economics is quite a bit more complex than you make it out to be.
Springfield Armory, as well as the vast majority of the foreign automotive manufacturers you mentioned, have either plants, offices, or factories right here in the USA. These employ tremendous numbers of Americans, and percentages of profits are distributed back into the US in the form of taxes, employee wages, donations (Nissan, Toyota, Honda, and others have all contributed substantially to the Katrina relief effort), etc.
As far as auto plants closing, and the relatively poor financial situation of the Big Three auto makers, this is primarily a case of poorly managed companies rather than some fault of the American public. Ironically, many of the workers who have been victims of the cut-backs these "American" companies have been compelled to make in an attempt to stay afloat will likely find themselves able to locate work with one of the numerous foreign companies who continue to open new plants and offices here, investing great sums of money into the US in the process.
I've gone off on quite a tangent here, but I just wanted to point out that "buying American" isn't as cut and dry as perhaps it once was, or was perceived to be. A person can still support the US economy and our workers (something I'm tremendously in favor of) even if he buys products that are not traditionally considered "American". Again, I'm not trying to take away from your valid opinion, I only wanted to present something that perhaps you had not previously considered.
