Posted on 06/02/2014 11:11:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it.
The fact that the Ambassador was a copy is hardly an automatic reason for condemnation. The first Nikon camera was an obvious copy of a German camera called the Contax, and the first Canon was an obvious copy of the Leica. The difference is that, over the years, Nikons and Canons rose to become state of the art, during both the era of film and in the new digital age.
Not so the Ambassador car. It was notorious for poor finish and poor handling. But, since it was the only game in town — and "town" was all of India, people were on waiting lists for it for months, and sometimes even years.
By contrast, Nikon and Canons were good cameras from day one and they just got better as the companies that produced them gained more experience. With a highly competitive international market for cameras, they had no choice if they wanted to survive.
But the Hindustan Ambassador had no such problem. Only those who bought them had problems.
Toward the end of the 20th century, India began to loosen up some of its jungle of rules and regulations that were strangling India's businesses. Though India is still a long way from a free market, just the relaxing of some of its economic restrictions was enough to promote a higher rate of growth and a substantial reduction in poverty.
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Why do we have an uneducated, immoral, and limp-wristed dork like Obama as president when we have intellects like Sowell outside of the gubmit?
For gawd’s sake, I’d vote for Sowell at least ten times...and go back that after noon for ten more votes.
(Hey, multiple voting is good...liberals do it all the time.)
I hear you.
It’s very sad how politics and politicians have now degraded to the point that few are even a mere shadow of the Founding Fathers. Our system has become corrupt to the core with few honest people elected to public service.
0bama and others like him are elected by voters who are only interested in what the government will do for them, sadly they seem to be in the majority.
One poll worker here in Cincinnati boasted that she voted for Obama six times in the last election! Thankfully, she's in jail now. In Lake County, IN, just south of Chicago, dead people vote multiple times. If voter fraud isn't fixed soon, people will completely lose faith and that, folks, is the end of this Republic.
In the case of Sowell, it is because by temperament he is a superb academic but is unsuited to politics. In the long run we can hope to elect people who value and read what he writes & has written.
voting 20 times?! I was going to say.....what are you, a leftist???????? heeheehee
India also built FIATS of the late 1950s, and has recently had stunning success with its retro-debut of the Royal Enfield Motorcycle of the late 1940s. I hope they do the same with the iconic MGB! Also a good place to pick up an old Raleigh or Rudge English bicycle.
Make some outstanding tractors, too.
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