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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, 2004-11-01 12:49
Subject: RE: U.S. seeing less foreign investment
Thanks
for your note. It's hard to understand why the United States didn't go metric
long ago.
Jim
Landers
[Landers,
Jim] -----Original Message-----
From: Euric
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Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 1:02
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
U.S. seeing less foreign investment
Jim,
If I operated a business that wanted to
satisfy the 97 % of the people of the world who use and love the metric
system, I too would close up shop in the US and produce metric products
elsewhere.. Despite America's reasons for not wanting to go metric, the
fact is metric products produced elsewhere are easily marketable in the
US. But American products made to FFU (Fred Flintstone Units)
measurements are not accepted outside the US, at least in profitable
amounts.
Why waste time, effort and money trying to sell the
American public on using metric in the factory so they can make products the
world wants and earn a decent salary, when it is much easier and less of a
headache to just shut the American factory down and move it anywhere in the
world where the people are already metric and would not resist using it.
Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Euric
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