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Dave wrote:
On 1 Apr 2004 13:39:08 -0800, (Joe) said:
I'm voting for change, I'm voting for Kerry.
Hey, you forgot about his great plan to keep companies from moving work
offshore and to increase employment. Tie them up with red tape--make 'em
file reports and hire thousands more bureaucrats to go through the reports.
That'll work real well. They'll move their HO and stock exchange
listing to Singapore as well. Set up an importing subsidiary in the
USA. Then what?
I'm paying little/no attention to the US elections, but braindead ideas
like that have been tried many times in other places. So far the track
record is pretty poor. Even if they work to stop companies from moving
manufacturing offshore, how are you going to force consumers to buy
stuff at higher prices if the quality is the same? Tariffs & quotas?
Hey, you just reinvented the Japanese approach! You know, the one that
the USA has been bitching about (while simultaneously practising in
agriculture) for 20+ years.
The only way proven to work is to build a better product at an
equivalent price, or an inferior but useable product at a lot cheaper
price. I just bought a Chinese 7 1/2" circular saw as a throwaway, to
cut sheetmetal, so as not to abuse my good Japanese one, on this logic.
The saw cost less than the USA-made steel cutting blade I fitted to it
and as long as it gets the job done, the moment it fails I'll bin it.
Came with a 2 year unconditional home handyman warranty :-)
PDW