Can the sale of Budwieser beer to non-US interests be used to help us?

[Stinky The Clown]

It seems to me that Bud is seen as red-white-and-blue 'Murkin beer.

And if the sale of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. to Belgian beer giant InBev happens, can we use this story to show how the entire country is growing increasingly worthless thanks to unfettered Reublicanism?

I'd love to this scare the shit out of the mouth breathers, knuckle draggers, and the masses of the uninvolved and willfully ignorant.

[donco6]

1. No one batted an eye over Molson/Coors.

I'd say as long as there's alcohol in the bottle, no one will give a sh*t.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Bud is Rice Beer and uses Monsanto modified Rice.

It cannot be legally sold in Germany as Beer

Nuf said.

[tritsofme]

3. Miller has been owned by South Africans for years now.

And Bud sucks anyways.

I think people are used to acquisitions such as this one these days.

[HamdenRice]

14. Too bad they don't start brewing South African beer here!!!

I did not know SAB bought Miller, which is a terrible beer. Too bad they don't start making Lion and Castle (the main SAn brands) here, because both are much better. I think they are too strong for the US. There is a SAn restaurant here in NYC that sometimes has Castle and Lion, and the manager once told me that the problem is that they have to sell it as "malt liquor" here because of its alcohol content.

When I first went to live in SA, I would go drinking beer with friends and get inexplicably blasted and hungover. Only after I had been there a while did I learn about the alcohol content of their beer.

[Mythsaje]

4. I only really care what happens to GOOD beer.

Buttwiper barely qualifies as donkey piss.

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. Bitte Ein Bit!

[rwheeler31]

6. This is good no more crappy beer.

[petronius]

7. If they'd pack up every drop of it and ship it out of the country, I'd call that

a huge help.

However, I think the answer to your question is "no" - all those people mentioned in your last line will simply chalk it up to imaginary anti-business policies of the Democratic Congress. On the other hand, people who are willing to take the time to understand the roots of our economic clusterfuck will not be swayed by an anecdote - no matter how close to home - nor will they need to be...

[AlCzervik]

8. I doubt it unless it all got shipped overseas, as long as they can still buy it no one

will care.

life is too short to drink shitty beer, spend a little more on good beer just buy it less often.

[RNdaSilva]

9. Anheuser-Busch/Budweiser/Cindy McCain!?!

[Sherman A1]

10. Perhaps,

and to the folks that consider it to be a beer not equal to their tastes (I don't drink beer, so I won't argue that point), I would mention that there are a great number of good paying jobs involved with this company. You may not like their product (if so don't buy it) or their politics, but they pay their people pretty well and there are a bunch of families and communities that rely on those good paying jobs and the company's community involvement. I for one would not like to see it happen, but only owning a few shares of their stock, really don't have much influence in the situation.

[w13rd0]

11. Considering that AB...

...is a HUGE employer in Saint Louis, MO, I think it will.

I'll ask a couple of people there today what they think.

[ForrestGump]

12. Maybe now those poor, beleagured

Belgiumese can get a taste of real beer.



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I don't drink but, if I did, I think I'd dislike Budweiser and others of its ilk.

[Canuckistanian]

13. What about the loss of Levi Strauss?

You couldn't get more "American" than Levi's jeans.

Now they're made where? Mexico? Guatemala?

I don't remember any knuckle draggers screaming about that move.

[aikoaiko]

15. How does a company being sold indicate worthlessness? Seems to me it shows the opposite.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. In better times, its value - in $US - would have been MUCH higher

They can buy it because it is half price, roughly.

[Romulox]

16. More "But it's *MY* ox being gored!" style economics.

Either you support globalization and "free trade" or you don't. Globalization hasn't gone too far when it's your interests on the line.

I say sell this crap company to any sucker willing to buy! :thumbsup:

[Stinky The Clown]

18. The **point** was to use as an example ......

..... a crap beer that is an American icon that will now be owned by non-Americans.

Its tantamount to selling NASCAR.

The thread wasn't about Budweiser Beer. It was abut the sale of another American icon - an icon that is near and dear and very familiar to the morons who, unfortunately always vote and vote against their best interests.