"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"J. R. Carroll" wrote in message
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"J. R. Carroll" wrote in message
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If Detroit or Windsor can't stay busy or if GM files it won't be because
they couldn't get the answer right. It will be because they kept asking
the
wrong damned question.

And are you talking about a solution for 10% of the market, or are you
claiming you have a general question and a general solution for it?

It isn't a claim Ed, it is a proven philosophy and business model. It will
work wherever you choose to run it if the infrastructure is in place.



Because we can always make a positive anecdote of the virtues of 10%, if
we
neglect the fact that an economy is all 100%, and that the consequences of
what happens to the other 90% eventually catches up with all of us.

Sooner or later, you have to answer the question of how you compete with
80
cents/hour wages, when technology and business expertise can be packaged
into shipping containers and sent to Bangalore or Shanghai just as easily
as
to Cleveland, and that clever ideas, hard work, and insight are
distributed
quite evenly around the world.

Focusing on wages is exactly the wrong thing to do. I paid the tool room
guys a five dollar premium to the market, provided excellent medical
benefits, paid time off, and contributed the legal maximum to our 401K for
every employee at the time that was 4 to 1.
You are closer to the mark with the clever ideas part however and I agree
that no one group has a lock on that.

If you think that GM is tanking because of their labor contracts or pension
obligations you are just plain wrong. They suck hind tit because their
business model if for ****.

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John R. Carroll
Machining Solution Software, Inc.
Los Angeles San Francisco
www.machiningsolution.com