[Alberta's Child]

Let's look at the computer industry as a classic example. When companies like IBM were the only ones making computers, most of the people making them were Americans but none of the people owning them were IBM "assembly-line" workers.

Today, IBM doesn't make any personal computers from the ground up -- if any assembly is done at all by IBM in the U.S., it is done using parts from outside suppliers. And yet nearly every IBM employee in the U.S. has a computer on his desk at work, and most of them probably have one or even more at home.

I don't understand why you can't accept this. You can look at almost any consumer product in use today and see the same trend at work. In fact, computers are a classic case in point -- because the desktop PC that is now a "consumer product" is more advanced by several orders of magnitude than machines that used to be called "high-end business equipment."

[drlevy88]

I don't understand why you can't accept this.

Because you handwave with handpicked examples, not prove a general principle.

[drlevy88]

And quit hyping canada or as far as I'm concerned you are a can*ck I don't care what your passport says. I bet you do have an economic dog in this fight.

I'd far, far sooner buy from Canada than from China -- Canada has no missiles pointed at the USA -- but sooner yet from the USA.