I'll have to send this particular letter to my Congressman, it shows why the US has a trade deficit. Multiply this a couple of Billion times and you can see why we have a problem.
Quote from Web site: Pete, I think that you're right. The supporters of the status quo in the USA simply don't get it. I've said this before and I'll say it again - I will not buy a product that isn't made to SI measurement standards. I'll eliminate it on those grounds alone. And don't give me the crap about 12.7mm being a metric dimension. While I'm more or less retired nowadays, I used to be responsible for millions of dollars in purchasing in the marine area. Look, given a choice of products I'd buy off a US company over a Chinese one, for example, because our politics and economic philosophies are closer. But, and it's a big but, the product has to be made to SI units and it has to be of equivalent quality. Price is a bit more negotiable. You guys just don't get it. The cost of switching to SI units is going to hurt. The cost of not doing it is already hurting you, but it's an opportunity cost - so far. I don't think you're going to be able to manage it frankly because all I read is concentrating on the cost and nothing on the benefit. Accountant speak. I'm 57 and lived through the conversion to metric here in Australia. It wasn't any sort of traumatic episode. How do you swap over? Hell, just DO it. PDW ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2010 07:36 Subject: [USMA:47733] Machinist discussion Dear All, The machinist's amongst us might like to see this thread: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/general/lets-go-metric-but-how-205498/index13.html The most recent is at the bottom – I think – if I've made the right assumptions about their date format. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
