[TheForge] Maybe The Prime Minister of Canada has his underwear(off topic rant)

[Ralph E Douglass]

TOOL GYPSY wrote:
> 
> Wise sages
>     It sounds to me like it could be true this story of unclad mechanics in
> walmart parking lots.After our wise government decided to shut down the coal
> mines and steel mills in cape breton ,and start importing coal from penn.for
> the generation of electricity, the economic devastation was rampant on our
> fair isle.The poor bastard under the car probably cant afford underwear.By
> the way i can only wish walmart was nowhere to be seen as they dont help the
> situation either.

Funny thing about Walmart and how folks see them. At leaast here in the
US of A, we are supposedly a capitalistic society, meaning in theory
that the customer demand is what drives prices. SO if we the consumer
demand cheap prices, then why do we denigrate places like Walmart for
providing this? It is we who eventually drive the quality down with our
insesant demands for cheaper costs. 
And this is not only Walmart, have you looked at who it is that is
providing most of the new machine shop tools? China, and for the most
part the quality is not quite the same as if was years ag. Why? Because
once again cost was the prime mover and so quality is out.
We need to start insisting on better quality and need to be willing to
pay for it so that it will be the driving factor in production.
My 2 cents worth of rant

Ralph

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