Posted on 11/29/2007 7:11:00 PM PST by LowCountryJoe
“So, here’s a question for you: I design consumer electronics - loudspeakers, in particular - for a living. I can get them entirely made in the US. Will you commit to buying your next pair of speakers from me, guaranteed to be made entirely in the US versus running down to Best Buy or Circuit City and picking up the $99 special? It’ll only cost you a few thousand dollars for a small pair of speakers...”
I have no problem with that. I buy hand made local stuff and go out of my way to buy made in USA every chance I get.
$99 speakers? I don’t think so. For some people at least....quality matters.
Now this:
“It’s called capitalism. Read about it some time - it actually works. It’s what this country was founded on.”
I simply not true, Locke was a High Tariffs advocate, he theorized that they would not only grow Nation based business, but also increase Patriotism.
He was right, Globalism also decreases the concept of Loyalty to pretty much everything but the bottom line.
I put a lot more money in the hands of Americans than I do in the hands of Chinese. I think I’m growing both economies, and using the Chinese to grow ours faster than they grow theirs.
It’s called actually understanding what Trade is.
I guess you don’t shop? I mean, be honest about it, you’re just helping to grow the bank account of the grocer, taking from the mouths of your own family to make his pocketbook fatter...
You have no idea what I'd do. You also have no idea what many companies would do absent regulation. You're arguments mirror those made by Upton Sinclair and Eugene Debs...hardly conservative icons, bud.
So what brand TV do you have? What car do you drive? Have a CD player, or cell phone?
You know, you CAN get purely-US built versions of each of those. Do you put your money where your mouth is?
“If I had a business and could put them to work making things that consumers wanted, I could probably make huge profits (which I’d profit share with them) by marketing the products and appealing to the consumer’s emotional aspect to the operation.”
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No brainer ace......
Can you “invest” $1000.00 for a student who has artistic talent? Would it be “acceptable” for one of your students to rake in $1000.00 a week in income?....probably working 30-40 hours a week?
I got ya covered.
“So what brand TV do you have? What car do you drive? Have a CD player, or cell phone?
You know, you CAN get purely-US built versions of each of those. Do you put your money where your mouth is?”
Hmm i’ll take your challenge
1. TV..bought used
2. Ride a Schwin/ drive suburban
3. CD player none, most modern music is CRAP, listen to old radio.
4. Cell phone? Hate those damnable devices wouldn’t have one.
“So you created a brand new job, no one ever worked in your field before”?
Nope.
“so you’re not competing with others, you don’t force down the costs charged by those in your industry?”
Nope...I’m the most expensive guy around here...
“Do you never try to out-work your competition? “
Out work? I work smarter, not harder.
“Do you price your quotes higher than your competition so you don’t take work from them?”
I price my work according to the job and my customer. If I’m in a bad mood and my customer is a tule...I price the job higher. If the customer is a decent bloke... I charge a bit lower.
I have an “a$$hole tax” to be sure.
That the best you got?... Insults?
Looks to me like they are all coming to Las Vegas and Macau and giving it right back at the baccarat tables. ;)
I’ve gotta get some sleep. I look forward to responding more on Saturday morning; maybe.
LOL.
You do know Macau is China, right?
You do know the casinos are privately owned right?
“So what brand TV do you have? What car do you drive? Have a CD player, or cell phone?”
This is embarassing...I do not watch much TV...LOL Last one I bought was Curtis Mathes....years ago.
Car. Dodge truck....made in St Louis way back when....
Cd player: nope MP3 (toshiba) as a gift.
Cell phone: motorola el cheapo
SO no go on the brand of the TV... You know, by purchasing a used Sony or JVC you’re adding value to those brands by increasing the desirability of them in the used market.
Schwinn? Part of Dorel Corp, and the bikes roll out of factories in China. I’ve been to one of them in Su Zhou that makes the forks for quite a few of their models.
Radio - like a JVC, RCA, Sony, Pioneer?
Regular phone then - AT&T? Samsung? Panasonic?
I've got time for one more. No, the best I got is the content that I reserve for those who wish to discuss the matter rationally and without hyperbole. Check out my prior posts, if you wish, and look for the ones where I provided specific answers to fears and misunderstandings. But don't just read my stuff. there are many good FReepers who post here that can explain this stuff even better than I can if you'd just be willing to read their opinions, ask questions of them, argue your own points intelligently, and keep an eye toward liberty and optimism always...as Reagan would have asked from us.
” “intensfy”
As [in to] concentrate, to put under stress through maximum effort?
Yes.”
So is that “why” productivity has increased for at least 5 years now, and yet wages stagnated until the last year or so?
Would that be “to put under stress through maximum effort”?
IIRC one Chinese guy owns most of it. Delicate balancing act between him, the Beijing government, and the Triads.
Asia is much different from America. Foreigners can own things outright in America. It makes us think that’s the way things operate elsewhere.
It’s not.
OK, so an old CM TV.
Dodge truck - Mercedes Benz, German. No trade there!
Toshiba MP3. Check.
Motorola cell phone? Built in China.
Oh, and the computer you’re using? Most of the parts come from China or Malaysia, and the reason you can get a $300 new laptop is because of leveraging overseas production.
So about your job, it’s a brand new field that never existed before, and you have no one else in the field. Mind if I ask what the field is?
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