HD riders are a different breed of rider. they are so loyal to HD they practice a religion, the religion of Harley-Davidson. HD needs to take advantage of that loyalty by continuing to offer up the product that brought them to the dance in the first place; an American MADE AND PRODUCED product.

however, on the business side the government only knows how to do one thing to business:

tax it into exile.

by the time the taxes are taken care of there is very little to run the business on, thus margins are SLIM to NONE. Small to medium businesses need and deserve an incentive to continue operations, else they will dry up and die.

hello China, Mexico, Japan, Korea we love sending our $$$$ overseas, don't we?

Killing the geese that lay the golden eggs, one goose at a time........

pretty soon, our great American manufacturing concerns may become empty buildings only inhabited by the ghosts of the workers who once built a great nation.......

Sing it Hank....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2vem1j3Z4g