Unfortunately I have to agree with everything Ron say's.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Soave" <soavero@yahoo.com>
To: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: jack stands
> --- b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:
>> American companies are getting their products made
>> in the Asian gulags
>> where, despite the buyers specifications, there is
>> no way to translate
>> "quality".
>
> Ruh-roh - you've pushed my hot-button. After getting
> some extreme and not so extreme close ups of what
> Apple Computer, GE Aviation, and some other hallmark
> companies get out of China quality wise (6 sigma
> top-notch stuff), I think the issue is more the cost
> of quality and what the average Joe is willing to pay.
> We should all read David Halberstam's "Reckoning".
> It's still relevant, just replace "Japan" with
> "China", and you'll get a real good idea that
> dismissing anything in a developing economy as 3rd
> world is naive. China's strategy isn't to make crap.
> It's to make crap that Americans will buy with money
> they are ultimately borrowing from China banks in the
> first place (we spend $1.01 for each $1 we save), use
> dollars to buy other currency, flood the world market
> with dollars and thus devaluating the snot out of it,
> making the US completely uncompetitive
> internationally, and taking over our economy which
> they will already own since we borrowed the money from
> them to buy their crap. Then they can really
> industrialize, buy our buildings, banks, country clubs
> and industries like the Japanese did in the late 80s,
> make stuff as good as Japan except in a scale that
> will shock and awe us since there are several billion
> of them (and it's foolish to think none of them are as
> smart as we are or as able to make quality goods). I
> could go on, but you've probably found the delete key
> by now....
>
> Ron
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