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Originally posted by OnyxCougar
ok, I think I understand what you're saying, but I disagree on the above statement. We do make computers in America. My sister used to work at Hughes aircraft putting microchips together for computers. We do build computer components here. Now, on a larger scale, I don't know where Dell, Gateway, etc. get their parts, but I do know there are some computer components made in the US.

If we make 10 computers here and 10,000 there, then we make zero computers here. Its about perspective. Any number after the second or third signficant digit becomes irrelevant.

Now if those Hughes computers are something special, then we make those unique computers here even though we make virtually no PC in America.

Almost all laptops for IBM, Dell, and HP are made by the same Tiawan manufacturer - name long since forgotten. He builds them. We define how he must build them.

I too still build a computer from time to time. But when talking about economies, we still make no computers because I don't make enough.