On Jul 9, 4:06*pm, "Leon" wrote:
"LdB" wrote in message

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On 7/8/2010 8:53 PM, woodstuff wrote:

Back closer to reality, however, there are alot of industrial woodworking
machines floating around at really low prices.I am leaving out some
heartfelt comments about the government, the manufacturing exodus to
china,
and the State of the Union as I see it

woodstuff

What of the reality of your wife running into Walmart to by a bib for some
new rug rat. Not only has she helped put textile workers out of work, *she
has also put the people who build the textile machines out of work. *Like
dominos, when one falls another goes with it. Sooner or later one of those
dominos will land on her head. If you have an Asian tool in your workshop
you deserve a domino yourself.

Personally I'm sick of hearing people blame the government for problems
caused by their own greed. That's what it's all about, isn't it. Jump up
and yell all the patriotic slogans you can think of until you have to
reach into your wallet. Then it's f*** the country and everyone in it. *My
money is more precious than anyting else. *I'll by the cheapest product *I
can find.

Shame on anyone who buys Asian products then blames the government for the
manufacturing exodus.

If the American government was not $11,000,000,000,000.00 *+ in debt perhaps
the American businesses could afford to build a product that is compeditive.
But it appears that *the answer from out government is to tax the hell out
of every thing until everything grinds to a hault..

The taxes are simply not where they need to be. Check out how many
industrialized nations don't have a VAT for imports. If there was a
US VAT on imports it would help level the playing field.

I've posted this before, just not sure if it was on this group:
http://www.reverecopper.com/pdf/MyCompanyCountry.pdf
That's from Revere Copper, of Paul Revere fame.

This is also interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ntage_of_ GDP
Notice the demarkation line above and below the US - with few
exceptions the countries with a lower tax revenue wouldn't be the
countries people would want to hold up as a model country. There are
some exceptions, but those exceptions have exceptions that skew the
numbers (such as petro-dollar countries).

R