From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: The blame game
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:29:17 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Distribution: usa,tx
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Oct7.094023.16813@montagar.com> davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey) writes:
>	Do you have any reputable sources on this statement???

Sure.  On me right now?  No.  This is one of those no-brainer statistics,
like China being the most populous nation.  But here is a piece from an
editorial that should lend some credibility to my statement -

	"You would never know from their campaign rhetoric that America
	 remains the largest economy in the world, with the strongest
	 export trade, whose companies have been meeting the global
	 competition and winning.  Even with all of its current
	 weaknesses, the United States remains the undisputed leader in
	 new technology development, new business formation, worker
	 skills and higher education among the industrialize nations of
	 the world."
			-- Donald Lambro, 9/14

>	I think the Prime Minister of Japan hit the nail on the head.  Does
>this piss me off? Yes, but at ourselves, not him.  The truth hurts, don't it! 
>Maybe that will wake us up and get us off our coffee breaks.  Get your Ego
>(U.S. just *has* to be #1) out of your thought process for a little while.  We
>are probably no higher than #2 or #3, and the jobs are being pulled from
>countries much lower than that, not Japan.

This explains why American Honda Motors exports 3 times as many cars to
Japan as does General Motors.  Certainly if those Japanese workers are
so productive, AHM wouldn't be building cars here, much less sending
them back to Japan.  Right?

As for clear evidence, I believe that ADDS (the company that makes ADDS
terminals) just moved all of their Japanese based manufacturing back to
the US after learning it could be done far more inexpensively HERE with
higher productivity American workers.

>	From my perspective, I don't see how workers are more productive
>than the Japanese, when *OURS* go on strike for more pay!

Simple, we don't discriminate against women in this country.  We don't
practice systematic racial discrimination.  We allow the best and brighest
minds from any country in the world immigrate.  You stand a better chance
of immigrating from Japan to the US than from the US to Japan.  In Japan,
everything has already been divied up by large conglomerates - there is
very little real competition.  Throw all of that together and I'd say it's
pretty easy to see why the Japanese send their children to the US for
college educations, why the Japanese emmigrate to the US, why the Japanese
are the #3 exporter after Germany (#2) and the United States (#1), and so
on.  It is also easy to understand why the Japanese stock market has
declined 50% (from 36,000 to 17,000) in about 3 years compared to our
stock market (up from ~2,500 to ~3,100) in the same period.  Why the
Japanese economy is sliding into recession (we aren't).  Why Japanese
cars are losing market share in this country (ours aren't).

Get a clue.  The Land of the Rising Sun is in for a big come-upance now
that the material excesses of the 80's have ended.  Any nation based on
foreign consumption is going to pay dearly when those foreigners decide
that conspicuous consumption is passe'.
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