On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:59:41 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Finally, my good friend down in Australia put me in touch with a
manufacturing rep for a Chinese manufacturer. I talked with the guy,
we chatted, I gave him a rough idea of what I was trying to do and he
sent me sample of lures made in China along with a spec sheet on price
points and purchasing.

Including shipping to New Jersey, UPS to my house it was just under
.63¢ a lure.

This Chinese manufacturer isn't a slave shop - they pay their people
well compared to the living standard in China - the factory was new
and located in a area of China where afflulence is becoming the norm.
They guarenteed the product safe. The rep said he would put up a
performance bond on behalf of the manufacturer to quarentee the price.
Trust me - I asked a lot of questions over five or six days about a
half hour per phone call.

I went to AmerInd tribes, handicapped manufacturing organizations,
small manufacturers looking for business - local guys who are
machinists and injection molders - couldn't do it for under $3.17.

Now, you tell me what's wrong that I can't do something that would
benefit me, give work to people who might have trouble finding work
benefitting them and sell a decent idea to market without having to go
overseas to do it.

Nothing wrong.

Here's the way I see it. Most of the Chinese population was isolated from
the rest of the world and kept in the dark for years since the Communist
Government was established in 1949. The biggest danger to the government
was allowing the vast population of getting a "sniff" of personal economic
prosperity. Once the genie is out of the lamp and all that ....

Well, we are witnessing a radical change in China and there are some
benefits for us and the rest of the world. We also have to witness the
maturing of the swing ... and watch out for some shoddy products for a
while. Remember what "Made in Japan" meant back in the 50's?

One benefit is that China will need to cooperate and get along with the rest
of the world because they need our markets for Chinese produced products.
China will become more supportative of her former adversaries.

China will become more and more capitalistic and a partner to many in a
global economy. They can't go back now because too many of her people have
tasted the fruits of limited freedom and relative financial prosperity.
They may be underpaid and have poor working conditions when compared to
western standards, but to many Chinese it represents the first opportunity
at making financial progress in their lifetime.

It's much more difficult to take something away from someone than to have
never given it to him/her in the first place.

Good points and I in general agree.