Isn't it true that many 'American' cars have parts and are partly made in other countries and many 'foreign' cars have parts and are partly made in the U.S.?
Selma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] We're waiting, Mr Snow > If it is like it was when I owned a Honda and then a Ford and then a > Plymouth. American service sucks. But American cars are as good as any > and better than a lot. My Honda was fast but it was the superior service > organization that kept the car running on the road. Like a good socialist > organization, they planned the obsolesence and replaced things whether they > needed them or not. Such an organized replacement kept a smooth system in > the automobile that didn't have the problem with the overall performance > system having to adjust to completely new parts. Central planning does > work if you so choose. But it was the initial Japanese governmental > supports both as tariffs and as subsidies that made the Honda cheap enough > for us to afford the new system and get used to a continual maintainence > schedule. > > Once I got the Ford, the maintainence was terrible and new parts destroyed > old and stimulated destruction of the system as a whole. But my > father-in-law who was a mechanic, loved the Ford. I got rid of that car > quickly. I had to be a mechanic to know how to deal with it. The > Plymouth had decent but not great service and the same problem with parts > destroying each other since they weren't centrally organized either. I > would compare the Japanese companies to the old Bell Laboratories. Some > bad problems with monopolies but lots of good technological stuff and I had > to shoot their telephone and throw them away before they would be defective. > Today's phones are like chewing gum. Messy and easily ruined. You can > forget about cell phones. > > Now cell phones are a place where I worry about radiation. Know anything > about that Harry? > > REH > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:05 PM > Subject: RE: [Futurework] We're waiting, Mr Snow > > > > Arthur, > > > > As I look out at my driveway with its two Toyota Station Wagons I wonder > > why Toyota is at the top of the list in sales? I think Honda is second. > > > > Could it be that Americans appreciate a good car? > > > > Harry > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Arthur wrote: > > > > >Somewhere I have a quote from the head of Toyota who said that since > > >Americans didn't appreciate quality, they would slowly bring down the > hours > > >and effort and yen put into achieving quality. It was wasted on > Americans > > >and was costing Toyota too much. > > > > > >arthur > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:32 PM > > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: [Futurework] We're waiting, Mr Snow > > > > > > > > >Keith Hudson wrote: > > >[snip] > > > > In a report out today ML has opined that the > > > > weak-dollar has already added 2% to nominal growth in the US. > > >[snip] > > > > > >The best thing about a weak dollar is that it puts pressure > > >on Americans to buy inferior American products and it > > >gives people in the rest of the world incentive to buy > > >inferior American products. > > > > > >I wish I could buy American *all the time* --> BECAUSE > > >AMERICAN WOULD BE BEST. When will we shame the Japanese, > > >the Germans and the Swiss about the inferior quality of > > >their prodsucts? Until then, we'll have to rely > > >on a weak dollar to get people to buy inferior American > > >products --> or, even better, get them to lower their > > >standards so they don't want anything better. > > > > > >When I was a child, "Japanese" meant junk. When I > > >was a young adult (1972), I still thought > > >a Datsun B-210 was a wingless kamikazi. Now I > > >wonder whether maybe even a Kia is better than a > > >Buick. (I would not even think of buying a Buick > > >instead of a Corolla, because I consider the relation of > > >Buick to Toyotas to be simliar (remember the > > >analogy questions on the SAT?) -- > > > > > > Buick is to Toyota as movie is to film. (I.e., > > > it's the ersatz kitsch nauga- version of it.) > > > > > >In an area which happens to interest me, fine mechanical > > >watches, America once made the best in the world. The > > >Waltham Stone Movement is a wonder to behold, e.g. --Then the > > >Swiss undersold us (ref.: "Who killed Cock Robin?", in > > >David Landes, _Revolution in Time_, Harvard Univ. Press). > > > > > >America *can* make as high quality as anyone else in > > >the world, but in the new global economy we have > > >constructed, we have made sure we no longer can > > >afford to (The Invisible Hand, AKA The Mo9nty Python > > >Boot, stomps down on the world). --No wonder > > >a gelding won the Kentucky Fried Chicken and the > > >Preakness: America has castrated its soul, so > > >it is appropriate that it wins with a castrato. > > > > > >It makes me sick and disgusted. FTFM (F-ck The > > >Free Market). > > > > > >\brad mccromci > > > > **************************************************** > > Harry Pollard > > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > > **************************************************** > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.484 / Virus Database: 282 - Release Date: 5/27/2003 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
