Please, not on the TT reflector. Whether we agree or not on this one, it
is clearly tangential at best to Ten-Tec. Start a different reflector
for this discussion!
73, Duane
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:37:00 +0000 ac5e@comcast.net writes:
> Steve, it seems to me the Ten Tec forum is as appropriate as any. If
> no one has a job nobody buys radios. And if wages go way down
> companies that make radios in a country where a plant supervisor
> makes the equivalent of $8,000 a year have a crushing price
> advantage.
>
> But bluntly, given an even playing field we can compete with anyone.
> Our misleaders have been cozying up to countries that are
> essentially waging economic war against us. An artificially low
> exchange rate amounts to a high protective tariff against foreign
> products - and at the same time amounts to a subsidy for their
> exports. So we are priced out of their market - and they can even
> price us out of our market.
>
> The result is economic warfare. The eventual victory occurs when the
> winner can buy the loser. Neat, sweet, and no blood shed.
>
> The solution? According to some of Washington's outs who want to be
> in again, the solution is to make their wages the same as ours. How?
> The only way possible is to drop our average worker's wages to their
> level, by further devaluing the dollar and by other means. Do you
> really want to make coolie wages. I don't think so.
>
> Don't misunderstand me. I'm a LIBERAL - and have been since I handed
> out flyers and cheered by the tracks for "Give 'em Hell" Harry
> Truman. But I have absolutely no sympathy for the media and
> entertainment industry "Elite" who have taken over my political
> party, most corporations, and our labor unions.
>
> I think the Elites who have exported our technology and our jobs to
> further their political interests have committed nothing more or
> less than treason. And their fellow travellers are just as guilty,
> whether they sit in an editors chair, a boardroom, a union hall, or
> a legislative body.
>
> 73 Pete Allen AC5E
>
>
> --
> You know what they call a cowboy who does not picket his horse?
>
> Afoot!
>
>
>
> > Pete,
> >
> > I understand your plight. Competing against cheap labor in China
> is
> > nearly a losing battle, especially when American companies no
> longer
> > consider themselves to be American companies, but rather
> > multinationals.
> >
> > Treason can be defined as giving defense secrets to other
> countries
> > under false pretenses, but in today's climate, dismantling the
> only
> > non-asian manufacturer capable of producing a critical,
> irreplacable
> > guidance system component for our key weapons systems is simply
> > considered to be good business practice, not treason.
> >
> > Run a google search on the words MAGNEQUENCH and CHINA to learn
> about
> > what many consider to be the worst example yet of an American
> company
> > engaging in treason. A keyword search on MAGNEQUENCH at the
> > insightmag.com website will turn up three articles that may make
> your
> > skin crawl. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=search
> >
> > I applaud you for your efforts to stay American!
> >
> > Thank you Pete!
> >
> > 73 de KD9BO Steve
> >
>
> > ps: before anyone flames me for going off topic, please do the
> search
> > and read the links. Then write to your Congressmen and Senators
> in
> > outrage.
> >
> >
> >
> > >Well, said, Doc. I'm a manufacturer in a small industry who has
> > >watched most of my competition go "offshore" because of the
> utterly
> > >reckless actions of a relatively small number of political
> > >appointees. And when you want to place blame for offshoring, do
> the
> > >arithmetic. Then do the research.
> > >
> > >It takes three to five years between the boardroom decision to
> move
> > >a plant until enough product has made it onshore to start issuing
>
> > >layoff slips. Who was in office three to five years ago? What
> were
> > >the policies that made major employers look overseas? Why were
> those
> > >policies in place? And why did the then administration fail to
> > >address those policies?
> > >
> > >The people we elect haven't a clue about what's going on - unless
> we
> > >tell them. And even when we tell them, forcing a bureaucrat to
>
> > >reverse course takes an act of Congress. A few who serve "at the
>
> > >will of the President" can be removed - provided said crony does
> not
> > >provide enough money to the incumbents
> > >re-election campaign, or to the financial markets, to make in
> > >inconvenient to tie a can to his tail. And provided the
> appointees
> > >actions do not represent the political philosophy of the
> President.
> > >
> > >All in all, the Founders - and Plato - gave us a wonderful system
> of
> > >government. And what we have now is the fruition of a 227 year
> long
> > >scheme to subvert that system. In large part by exporting the
> very
> > >foundation of our success and our economy - our jobs and our
> > >technology.
> > >
> > >73 Pete Allen AC5E
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > In this election season where everything seems to be presented
> or
> > >> interpreted as having partisan purpose we seem to find
> ourselves
> > >> parsing every word. An after-effect, I suppose, of the
> Clinton-Gore
> > >> years when all of we non-lawyers learned about new word games
> like
>
> > >> "It depends what your definition of is is." and "There is no
> > >> controlling legal authority." Sigh.
> > >>
> > >> So that we might address our E-mails, letters, and phone calls
> to
> > >> the correct individuals can you specify precisely whom it is
> in
> > >> this administration you know with certainty to be "highly in
> favor
> > >> of BPL", please?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Generalizations work against us in this campaign to inform
> the
> > >> uninformed and to derail this RFI trainwreck, only specifics
> are of value.
> > >>
> > >> IMHO, YMMV ...
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
> > >> West Central Florida
> > >> Op. Atlas, Drake, Hallicrafters, TenTec ...
> > >> p.s. Linux-incompatible hardware is defective!
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> > Steve Weber
> >
> >
> > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However
> > a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
> >
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