Re: Are there too many conservatives on this forum?
MY,<br />I would by the Japanese model. Why? I can't afford the extra $100.00. Perhaps I should say I don't see the point in spending an extra $100.00 when I don't have to. Which one would you buy? <br /><br />Why can't we (the U.S.) make a TV that can compete with the Japanese models? Is their labor too cheap? Too cheap for who? The Japanese workers making those TV's sure seem to be doing okay. I don't hear them complaining. Maybe our wages are too high. So, does that American TV assembler not want to cut his wages? I understand. I wouldn't want to either. Why doesn't he go to school (on the government) and learn to design new TV's, or any of the thousands of other careers that are available. <br /><br />Oh! But... that would be HARD....Wah Wah Wah!<br /><br />Sorry, but I'm really getting tired of hearing from people who think that employment is a right that must be protected by the government. That's called socialism. We can protect ourselves right out of business. <br /><br />The bottom line is that if we want to compete fairly with countries like China, India, Indonesia etc. We'd better learn to make our products faster, cheaper and better. Yep, even cheaper than those eastern sweatshops that employ cheap child labor. Either that or switch to making products that they don't make yet. <br /><br />If you don't believe in this World economy better look again. Before you critize your neighbor for buying that cheap Japanese made Nissan instead of a new Ford Taurus, understand that Ford now owns controlling stock in Nissan. They own Jaguar too. Rolls Royce, the British car maker which once made the most powerful aircraft engines in the world, the engines which powered our bombers and fighters over air raids over Nazi Germany during WWII, remember Rolls Royce? They're now owned by none other than BMW. Yes, the very factories that we sent those engines to bomb now own those engines. Even our old military mainstay, the Jeep, now has a German name in front of it. So, what's our answer to that? <br /><br />The Hummer.<br /><br />The point being that, like it or not, this is the way the world works now.
