HK wrote:
On 3/8/10 7:34 PM, Larry wrote:
mgg wrote:
My Logitech kb clearly says, "Made in China." Let's face it, they have
to. If it were made in the US, a $50 keyboard would cost $125. Gotta
love them unions.

--Mike

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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:02:46 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

My Logitech keyboard is made in Canada. Maybe not quite the US
but at
least North American.
I do think Logitech makes the best keyboards for the price but my
wife
has a Cherry that is bulletproof. I did pay close to $100 for it
though. It has survived dropping ... a lot, coffee, soda, water
and an
assortment of other assaults.
We don't really have computer desks. We use our machines from our
living room chairs.

I've got a Longitech keyboard ad it's at least 7 yrs old. and says
China on the back of it.


Actually I looked again and you are right (tiny print). I am guessing
the big "Canada" has to do with type acceptance

While unions are certainly responsible for some of that added cost, the
Chinese government has lower EPA standards, government subsidies, and
usually lower raw material costs.


For factory workers, China is just a little bit better than a slave
labor state. Chinese assembly line workers make next to nothing. The
country has very vew standards about anything. What the right-wing
here wants is a country full of workers who are willing to toil for
very low wages and no or practically no benefits.

Why pay an American factory worker minimum wage, when you can buy
hundreds of Chinese workers through a labor contractor for $2.00 a day?


Maybe that $2 per day is a living wage in China. It was a fortune here
many years ago. I pay more in property taxes than my parents paid for
their first house and they took out a mortgage.