Re: Odd Lots
- From: James Arthur <dagmargoodboat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:43:54 -0700
(un top-posted. ja)
On Aug 30, 8:51 am, "HapticZ" <hapt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Al" <no.s...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:no.spam-D69185.09073530082007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Near my home town there is a large store that sells all kinds of goodies
which come from, I supppose, bankrupt stores or overstocks and the like.
There I found some LED flashlights. The smaller one contains 9 white
LEDs and three AAA cells in a cartridge. The case is made of metal, is
waterproof being sealed with O-rings, and looks like it was machined.
And the thing cost only $3 with the AAA's. It works just great as it
illuminates the area you point at very nicely. It does not throw a
sharply focused beam.
The second size contains 16 white LEDs and is similar in construction
except the housing for the LEDs is larger. It cost $6.
Now how can a Western manufacturer compete with this? These were made in
China. I can't even buy 9 LEDs for $3 let along 3 AAA cells and a
waterproof body.
Just my rave.
Al
PS: I forgot, the larger one comes with a holder you attach to your belt.
usa could easily compete if it utilized the full capacity of automation and
supply of modern equipment
Not necessarily easily. Unless your volume is huge, you might never
pay for those expensive machines, much less make any money.
we are hampered not by cheap labor costs from over seas, but rather
expensive incompetence from within the usa
nobody here ever invests in new equipment unless there is guaranteed 200/300
percent profit and complete tax breaks fromlocal/federal govt.
That's wrong, of course.
nobody here will risk crossing the likes of union thugs to require
reasonable labor contracts.
Unions are dying off, having killed themselves (or their industries,
e.g. Detroit) with their demands.
no one here ever will challenge the medical/health industry to reduce their
self arrogant ego & insensitivity to real peoples economies.
There is no incentive to save; because people aren't spending their
own money, they don't care about the cost. If the patients don't
care, neither do the doctors. And, on the disincentive side, the
higher the costs the more insurance companies make, and lawyers feed
on doctors who omit customary but unnecessary labwork.
i don't need an 8/10 educated year intern to set my broken bone or lavage my
wounds.
we rather will graciously pour whats left of any gain into some poor retched
economy that crys and howls whenever some minutia of perceived affront is
made to them.
forget the usa folks, this wealthy bunch of usa industrialists would rather
screw their next door neighbor down the street of even a half decent job to
make an extra billion in profit
Make that "a profit" or "save themselves from ruin."
But you've already said the USA can't compete by hiring workers; we
need to buy the latest equipment, you said. So you yourself favor the
elimination of workers and judge it necessary to remain competitive.
But now the burden on industrialists is such that it doesn't even make
sense to have one's machines here; better to send them overseas.
That's what the trends suggest, anyhow.
by using some ignorant farmer who migrates
to a foreign city.
Using? And yet the immigrant thinks it's a good enough deal that he's
willing to cross borders and live in the shadows to do it.
if somebody sends money "back home", require them to send just as much here
to our own poor starving people.
If the immigrant is misused, how is it he has money to send home?
And...you want to take it from him? After accusing others of using
him, you want to sieze his hard-won gains?
its not those other countries, it is the scumbag stock market methods and
the cretinous banking slobs who do nothing other than exploit ANYONE for
money and gain.and they are HERE in this USA now.
capitalism is far more damaging than it is promoted as. money is NOT blood
and community, it is a cheap way to deceive and defraud far too many hard
working americans (and foreigners).
clean air will soon be more valuable than your child's own health.
how's that for some RANT! eh?
Incoherent.
Best regards,
James Arthur
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