From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: Strike at Saturn?
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 07:23:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.051511.12712@EE.Stanford.EDU>
sahul@gloworm.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul) writes:
>In article <1992Aug29.035447.15270@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
>underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
>> Mr. Andre, where's your G*d d*mn horn when the Japanese are forcing
>> the prices of vehicles like the Pontiac Grand Am to be jacked up
>> by 100% over the USA price?  I rarely, if ever, see any arguing that
>> the pricing system in Japan should be made fair.
>> By the way, where's your G*d d*mn horn when the Japanese laugh
>> at the inscription on the head of the Statute of Liberty because
>> they think that it's a joke?  You know.  "...send us your tired, your
>> poor, your wretched refuse from your teaming shores..."
>We should keep in mind that the US auto makers were never a major
>selling force in Japan.  The US auto makers are not doing badly 
>because they cannot sell cars in Japan.  They are doing badly because
>they cannot sell cars in the US.  

Get real, Mr. Sahul.  Here's another bub who does not criticize
an unfair system in Japan.

All factors held constant, except the price of American
cars in Japan being made the same as the price in the USA,
the number of vehicles sold in Japan _will_ _increase_.  That
extra 1 million dollars, for example, in income will be useful
for the survival of the companies.

Yeah, 1 million dollars is peanuts to Mr. Sahul.  But that could
be a few less unemployed folks America.

>Why don't our cars measure up?  Is it because the Japanese tax our
>cars?  Is it because the Japanese make fun of our symbols?  Think
>about it.  You will conclude it is because we don't do as good as
>a job as the Japanese do in building cars.  One can certainly
>blame the UAW, upper management at GM, George Bush or the Congress
>for the poor quality of our cars.  But blaming the Japanese for our
>failings is pretty stupid.  
>

What's really stupid is that although no where in my post do I
say that the American companies are faultless, Mr. Sahul decides
to go on this tangent.

<sarcasm on>

I propose that we continue with opening the market in Japan
to USA goods but that we _not_ waste our time asking Japan
to widen the markets in the general sense.

Why?

There are a whole bunch of foreigners in this country (yeah, I make
the conclusion that Mr. Sahul is a foreigner) who do not criticize
the unfair system in Japan.  Hence, we Americans are better off
by encouraging Japan to continue to shut out non-American products
from those countries where foreigners think that the USA is
being a "big bad bully" in forcing Japan to play fair.

Let's worry about the good folks in Japan and America.  And forget
about elsewhere.

<sarcasm off>

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