Re: Gold Soaring


"Ukraina Dvi" <sibirskmoneta@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Bruce Remick" <remick@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:oyuXi.2305
Above are two of your comments that led me to presume you were hostile
toward anything American. Maybe you can see my point, but excuse me if I
am wrong.


I am hostile, to manufacturing overseas, because nobody has the
wherewithal to produce decent merchandise here, but would rather farm it
out to someone overseas. The short term consequences are increased
profits, the long term consequences, economic ruin. I would gladly pay a
bit more for stuff if it was made here, and was quality, but in the main
so far lately that is not the case.

I think most Americans would agree.


Example: Sears has sold Craftsman tools since 1927. One of the selling
points on all of their hand tools was that they had a lifetime warranty,
if you broke it, they replaced it. No questions or nonsense. But now
if you go into Sears they sell these crappy Chinese tools in some blue
and green holder that has NO guarantee, warranty etc.

Don't they still offer the Craftsman brand?

Yes indeed they do, but it gets sidelined with that green and blue label
Chinese garbage.

Savvy tool buyers avoid the budget stuff, foreign or otherwise. Housewives
may do fine with a cheap crescent wrench for the drawer in the kitchen.


I wonder what a Camry costs in Japan?

Bruce


A lot more than in the USA, cars of any make etc. are much cheaper in the
USA than they are anywhere else in the world, where they are more of an
affluent luxury, and better public transportation exist. I could get
anywhere in Japan or China in public transportation, but, they like cars
and pay lots for them. BTW that is one major component that offsets the
huge losses that GM posts, their car sales in China, where they market the
Shanghai GM car, a big Buick sized automobile that is a status symbol.

In that regard it seems odd that a Japanese citizen could, in theory, come
over here and buy a Toyota and then ship it home for less than he could buy
one in Japan.

Bruce


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