Clifford and others, We all have similar thoughts here in Canada but, the bottom line remains that we want cheap products. There is nothing new in this!
Your Boston tea party was all about trade and taxes, laws governing trade restrictions. You probably remember as do I when about everything we wanted to buy came from Japan and that was synonymous with poor quality. German electronics and optics before that now Chinese. We all want Wal-Mart prices but the only way to get them is with Wal-Mart quality. of course quality and price aren't necessarily related. I can buy for example 200 250 mg. tablets of aspirin for about 8 bucks. The same number of 81 mg. are 12 bucks. The low dose of course is prophylactic and taken by many many thousands of persons who can be screwed by the manufacturer. Clearly it is not the quantity of active ingredient responsible for either the cost or the value, can it be the greed of the manufacturers? If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: clifford To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 12:00 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Maytag, the good old days Dear R. J. and list members: My mother has a 1932 ringer washer by Maytag, that came originally with a gasoline engine and an exhaust that ran about forty feet out in to the lawn. It was modified for an electric motor in the fifties. It still works, although she turned it in to a back-up machine, when she bought an automatic washer. My mother, being the frugal person she is, refused for a long time to allow the automatic washer to empty all that hot water after only one run of wash. My first wife and I have had a Maytag top loader for well over 25 years, which was turned over to our rental house when we bought the Neptune. Maytag was an automatic buy for us back in the good old days, and those commercials showing the lonely Maytag repairman, were on the mark. I am one of those old fogies that believe that we are happily destroying this country, by allowing our industrial capacity to be outsourced to off -shore locations. I thought then, and I still think today, that the treaties we have signed on trade are formulas for disaster. According to the history channel, the first manufacturing operation started in the U. S. was a company making shovels. I wonder how long it will be before there will no longer be a shovel made in the U. S. A. I am told by a machinist friend that our capacity to make and sell industrial tooling is being shifted abroad, and that many machines used in industry here are imported. Given all of the trends, I am not at all optimistic about our future. Whether it be a power saw, invented in this country, or an outboard motor, also invented here, the U. S. manufacturers are slipping away. My first chain saw was a Homelite , which gave good service and I would have gladly bought another, had they kept up with developments. I will quit with this line of thought before the sensors become outraged. Yours Truly, Clifford Wilson __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5017 (20100411) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
