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Originally posted by marichiko
You can still buy an American-made car. I dare you to find an American made TV or VCR or even steam iron.
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Lets not forget where the Sony Trinitron was developed. In Philadelphia. The bean counter manager saw fast profits by selling this American creation to Japan. Who got the bonus and who got all the jobs?
Let's not forget where the VCR was developed. Ampex corporation in CA. Again, the bean counter could not understand how innovation would make a $20,000 VCR profitable at $200. So again, this anti-American sold the technology to Japan. Who got the bonus? Who got the 1 million jobs?
In the meantime, to save Zenith, et al, we created a standard for HDTV that is incompatible with the world. A standard so inferior that American HDTV cannot be received in a moving vehicle or where the antenna might receive 'ghosts' (not to be confused with Casper or surreal visions). So where is Zenith? We protected the problem. Therefore we still have no American made TVs. Protecting Zenith is classic anti-American - and why Zenith does not exist. In free market economies, either the US company dominates OR the company if full of management who meet the definition of anti-American.
China is making some damn good products. But it is the wild west as The Ecomomist (cited by Bruce in another thread) notes. For example that Honda is making good Accords in China after Renault failed in the same factory. Most every small electric motor comes out of China even before Hong Kong became part of the mainland - in part because those small motors are so reliable. Don't fall into the same mentality of 1970 Americans who would badmouth the Japanese rather than business school graduates. It only makes America a weaker and ignorant nation.
Patriots always buy the best. In makes a stronger America AND a stronger world. It also makes the world love Americans - no matter how much George Jr tries to undermine the world's admiration and friendship to Americans.