Imperialists are those who are attached to imperial measurements, which is FFU to you and me.
Government needs to get involved and plan metrication like they did in other countries in the '70s. Resisting metrication should be made criminal, like smoking where it is forbidden. ----- Original Message ---- From: STANLEY DOORE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Daniel Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:21:32 AM Subject: Re: [USMA:38167] RE: Only metric sells People are interested in buying products which sell at the lowest price. It's capitalism and has nothing to do with imperialism. Government needs to get out of the way and let the SI happen. Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Jackson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; U.S. Metric Association Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:38167] RE: Only metric sells 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/ > > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front
