Imperialists are blind to the facts. Why would a company stay in a country if the population can't adopt to metric practices?
----- Original Message ---- From: STANLEY DOORE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:47:15 AM Subject: [USMA:38167] RE: Only metric sells No. It's basic economics. Companies go where they can get the best price to make or buy their products. That's capitalism. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 6:50 AM Subject: [USMA:38152] RE: Only metric sells > Is this turning into a (misguided) debate on economies, culminating in > stuff about the (eagerly awaited) collapse of the US dollar? > > >>From: Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >>Subject: [USMA:38118] Only metric sells >>Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:09:40 -0800 (PST) >> >>Germany's economy is booming. Germany's export of metric goods is >>booming. The euro is STRONG. >> >> http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=22280 >> >>No company will say they are going elsewhere because of metric, but for >>whatever reason, the products once made in inches in the US are now made >>in metric elsewhere. The cheap stuff in China and India, the high valued >>goods from Germany and elsewhere in Europe. >> >>Metric makes money for a nation, non-metric doesn't. All America has to >>show for its non-metricness is debt, debt and more debt. America's >>economy isn't kicking, it is stumbling all over the place. What America >>calls growth is just more deficit spending. More buying on credit. >>Americans spend 3 % more then they earn. >> >>If the US was more metric and more open and positive about being metric >>there would be more metric goods produced openly (not in secret) in the US >>and the world would be happy to buy them. Then the US would have a >>balanced trade account. Instead the US continues to buy metric produced >>goods from the world and world continues to buy metric produced goods from >>each other, but not the US. >> >>Yes, there are some American industries that are metric, but not enough to >>make a financial difference. Some that are metric are only so because >>they may assemble German or Chinese metric parts into their products. >>Others do so because they have to if they want to sell elsewhere. >> >>http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=51499 >> >>Now that China plans to set up a company to find other sources to invest >>their surpluses in, the purchase of US bonds will decrease and the >>subsidizing of US debt will come to an end. This means the US will have >>no choice but to make an effort to increase exports and the only way to do >>that is to project a positive metric attitude to the world. >> >>No metric no exports. It is that simple. >> >>If it is made in inches or feet, don't buy it as it is obsolete. >> >>Dan >> >> >>----- Original Message ---- >>From: Jim Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> >>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:31:40 PM >>Subject: [USMA:38115] Re: metric in the classroom >> >>I made the mistake of opening one of Daniel's emails, and cannot resist >>responding -- what a load of B.S. he is spewing! My comments in red. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Daniel Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:54:23 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver >>Subject: [USMA:38112] metric in the classroom >> >> >>I think America's schools and students need a rude wake-up call. >> >>Oh, are you talking about America's PUBLIK schools, run by America's >>GOVERNMENT??? Gosh, I thought you worshipped all things socialist!! >> >>They need to be told point blank that their metric ignorance Somewhat Real >>and anti-metric bias My personal experience teaching metric to many of our >>Publik Skool graduates is that anti-metric bias is almost nonexistent -- >>the problem is lack of education, not active dislike is a motivating >>factor in businesses choosing to have their products made in metric >>elsewhere in the world Total BS -- I challenge you to post ANY concrete >>evidence of ANY company moving production outside of the US due to metric >>ignorance. High paying manufacturing jobs are disappearing and have been >>disappearing for some time Again...B.S. -- it is the low-wage jobs that >>are outsourced, not the high-paying ones forcing Americans to live on less >>pay, excessive borrowing to maintain a middle class life style and working >>on the average 60 to 70 h per week at a low paying job More BS -- see >>http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm. Then to rub salt into the >>wounds, the products once made in inches >> in the US are now made in metric elsewhere and imported back to the US. >> The difference is they are made by metric loving people and not made by >> metric haters. Yet, the metric haters still buy them. Of course, the >> reality is that few people who pay attention to the units in which >> something is "made," so love or hate metric, this is immaterial. >> >> >>The reality of this situation may scare enough people to make them realize >>that metric is needed to keep the US from descending into a third world >>economy with poverty for everyone. It's America's economy that is kicking >>all others in the teeth, particularly Europe's. Tell me again how not >>being fully metricated is holding back the USA? Teachers that are >>anti-metric aid the problem and should be removed from teaching positions >>and have their certificates revoked. Too bad teacher's unions and >>government bureaucracy make that nearly impossible!! >> >> >>Dan >> >>As I tell my employees whenever I teach metric classes (and as Pat >>Naughtin has pointed out many times), the USA is largely metric already, >>aside from a facade of packaging of consumer products. Every year the >>country becomes more metric, and in time our old colloquial units will >>dissappear. It won't be as fast as most of us would like, but it IS >>happening. >> >>Jim Elwell >> >> >>********************** >>Jim Elwell >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>801-466-8770 >>www.qsicorp.com >> >> >> >>____________________________________________________________________________________ >>TV dinner still cooling? >>Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. >>http://tv.yahoo.com/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Solve the Conspiracy and win fantastic prizes. > http://www.theconspiracygame.co.uk/ > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
