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To: RANGERAIRBORNE
>>BUT, I guess the real answer to your question depends on whether you are BUILDING the house, or BUYING the house...

Consider the level of craftsmanship (not) being put into these nifty particleboard and stucco McMansions.

Should the plumbing start leaking 5 years after a new house is built?

You get what you pay for.
108 posted on 10/23/2003 10:03:40 AM PDT by VxH
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To: VxH
"You get what you pay for."

I am not trying to be a smart-aleck here, and I am genuinely NOT SURE what the answer is to this problem (or these problems- low-priced foreign goods and low-priced foreign labor).

But, you don't always "get what you pay for"- And too often, I have paid far more than what the product or service was worth, because of protectionist policies (national or local, eg, Union shops).

I don't like to pay an extra $200 for my snow tires to support the local tire store- and neither do most people.

So, while I make fun of WAL-MART, et al for preaching patriotism and then selling Chinese-made goods, I still shop there. As does almost everyone in town.

If you have a solution that would work, I'd love to hear it. And "throw all the foreigners out of the country" is not about to happen.

139 posted on 10/23/2003 10:42:42 AM PDT by RANGERAIRBORNE ("Si vis pacem, para bellum"- still good advice after 2000 years.)
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