From: ramage@ece.scarolina.edu (Dan Ramage)
Subject: Re: heyuk! be 'murkin to!
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:27:13 GMT

ed@Tekelec.Com (Ed Campbell) writes:

>In article <2134@admin.mport.COM> max@admin.mport.COM (Max) writes:


>>look, all bs aside, the japaneese motor industry 
>>provides products that just are not made here. an
>>inline four cylender mc is one of them. you can call them "rice", 
>>you can claim they suck, but you cant get an american 
>>one. just as you sent your $$ overseas for that vcr to 
>>watch tv with, i paid an american friend my $$ for
>>a type of bike that america dosent make. 

>    So, where were you when they WERE made here? I know there were at
>least 3 US companies that made motorcycles with inline 4 cylinder engines 
>(some with shaft drive) long before the imports "invented" them.

>>a very real point here is that the us economy is being mismanaged. there
>>is a real trade deficit with the far east, but the federal govt is blasting
>>holes in our economy that are even bigger. holding the japaneese as a
>>scapegoat for all of our economic problems is a sheeplike denial of the
>>fact that we have speant too much time building up the military (ask me how
>>i know!) and not enough time building things that bring home the bacon.

>   That is not the way it is. The feds do not build much of anything. The
>(late) USSR government tried building everything and look where they are
>today. It is a fact that when your primary exports are money and jobs,
>you will eventually run out of both. Who is exporting this? The government
>is sending some money out in the form of aid and questionably collectable
>loans, such as aid to Somolia and recostruction assistance to Russia and
>associates, but few will argue that this is not a reasonable investement.
>The government buys few imports, especially for the military, because this
>creates a number of maintainance/support problems in the event we have to
>really use this stuff and the supplying country sides against us. So who
The US government doesn't import any military equipment to my knowledge.
Why would it need to?  We do export military equipment, mostly to the
middle east, like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

>then? The fools who are driving/riding/watching/listening to all this
>imported junk. The next time you see an import cage drive by, stop and
>think. There goes someones wages for about 3 or 4 months and YOU are paying
>for his unemployment or welfare. If he gets desparate enough to steal food
>for his family, prices are raised to cover it, so YOU are paying for it
>again. Maybe he will get so desparate that he will break into your home
>or rob you on some back street. Maybe he will BE YOU.

The blame for the trade deficit with Japan lies on the GOVERNMENTS back.
Why is it that they cannot use the same restrictions against Japan
as Japan uses against US imports?

>BTW, My computer, which has a working shift key and a ' on the keyboard
>was made in South Dakota.
 
I can say my computer was assembled in the US, and one better than that
it was assembled in my state, S.C.  Quite a few of the components, such
as RAM chips, video card, etc are imported.  I will never buy another
one, I will not support the economy by buying unreliable equipment.  
If this means I will have to buy an imported clone, I will.  I see
no reason to settle for lesser quality equipment just for the sake of
buying American.  

>Ed Campbell
>        Email ed@Tekelec.com (seems to work)
>doh 0000005774 

>'57 FL '76 XLCH  My other car is a '54 Harley Servicar.



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