Re: Dear Mr. Farooq,

From: N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\) (net_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:46:04 -0700

Dear hanson:

"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message
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> "N:dlzc D:aol T:com (dlzc)" <N: dlzc1 D:cox T:net@nospam.com>
> wrote in message news:tJNfd.19597$SW3.6236@fed1read01...
>> "jacques jedwab" <jjedwab@ulb.ac.be> wrote in message
>> news:jjedwab-2708561848380001@geochim-mac2.ulb.ac.be...
>> > In article <dde6cfc4.0410260614.1e7e54f9@posting.google.com>,
>> > scott@yannitell.com (aSkeptic) wrote:
>> >>"I have never held a product in my hand that said "made in Pakistan".
>> >
> [Jacques]
>> > Pakistan is a net exporter of spices, wonderful hand-woven "oriental"
>> > rugs, singers, musicians, Sufi mystics, and in addition, millions of
>> > courageous women there give us every day reasons for hope, against all
>> > odds.
>>
> [Smitty]
>> I believe I occasionally get stainless steel pipe parts stamped
>> "Pakistan",
>> in the mix with "India", "Taiwan", "Israel", and "China".
>> David A. Smith
>>
> [hanson]
> Not bad, Smitty, not bad!.........there's a LOT of other things
> then SS pipe and coming from even more countries....and
> off course you know that they are all a result of OUT SOURCING
> which is simply the politicized, dirty-word for a GLOBAL economy.

It is just funny that the "global economy" can provide imperial-sized,
tapered pipe thread parts...

David A. Smith