[Milsurplus] Yalta Conference

[gl4d21a at juno.com]

I'm probably one of the toughest domestic hard cases there is, only own domestic vehicles more than 20 years old, ham rigs from Collins,  VHF-FM domestic surplus with GLB synthesizers, you get the drift.  But, it goes back to things like this.  Back in the 50s, Philco stubbed their toe on their "Apple" color picture tube, wonderful idea, never were able to manufacture it.  Sony spent the development money and produced their Trinitron, same principles.  No domestic equivalent ever was made.  And it went on like that.  Domestic manufacturers were so focused on the quarterly bottom line, that they lost the ability to compete with constantly improving foreign products.  First Japan, then Korea, now China.  Cheap labor and cheap money always wins.

YMMV,
George
W5VPQ

---------- Original Message ----------
From: sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov
To: jfor at quik.com
Cc: armyradios at yahoogroups.com, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Yalta Conference
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:29:23 +0300

I'd bet the $10 million per day is probably a
far more realistic cost estimate, but that is
5% of the originally touted number.

I suppose we could all stop buying anything
made in China, or Japan, or perhaps in the
upcoming years, anything made in India, but
we won't, will we?  No matter what laws,
agreements and trade treaties we have, no 
manufacturer is forced to move manufacturing
operations off-shore.  Having the ability to 
do so is not the same as being forced to do 
so.

73
SHeldon

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