Thomson is a French company is it not?
The real point of this thread should be "Is PBS good for America?".
YES, that's a nice little bit of irony, eh?
Thompson Consumer Electronics **IS** a French company. It is a divison of Thompson Multimedia.
Thompson also owns the GE consumer electronics brand and RCA. Nip and little Nipper now speak french. Le Woof.
So those were not "American jobs" which were lost in the first place...they were "French jobs"...as if jobs belong in one nation or another.
Jobs go where people work hard and work cheap. They go where governments don't regulate companies to death. They go where the trial lawyers don't run the justic system.
That is not only good for America but good for everybody except Willie Green and his band of overpaid/underworked trade unionists who will be out collecting unemployment and moaning about how unfair the world is.
And right now...that means unskilled high paying jobs will go to China where they become unskilled low paying jobs.
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Thomson was a Canadian company for many years.
There has not been a TV made in the U.S. for 15+ years, and there has never been an American made VCR.
Sure is. I was once an IT contractor at another one of their subsidiaries in the US. We found it very difficult to get the Thomson mothership to do the damnedest little things.