On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:50:34 -0600, philo wrote in


A sad reflection on the American workers: the quality of the product
improved! This is not quite the fine country it used to be I'm afraid.

It hasn't been since circa 1968. But until around the mid 1960s we
really didn't have much manufacturing competition. WWII pretty much
destroyed the manufacturing capability of Britain and Europe. If you
wanted to buy a manufactured product more complex than a hammer, you
had to buy it from America. That provided a lot of jobs without
competition; but those days are gone.
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