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Us Americans need reform & John Kerry
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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 |
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