Plywood from China

[LD]

Bullshit.

====================================================== Who pays their Health Care?

[LD]

Get this, the auto workers are not the Only taxpayers!

[LD]

Your Problem.

[LD]

With Billions being pissed away. you got that right.

[LD]

Who pays for their health care? Same applies to Japan.

[J. Clarke]

I did. It told me that no American manufacturer sold "millions" of transistor radios.

[J. Clarke]

FYGS.

[notbob]

In fact, we did. When I was a boy back in '56-57, mom bought a Zenith transistor radio. The thing was the size of a breadbox, weighed about

5-6lbs, and had a battery the size 2lb brick of cheese. Worked great. By the early '60s, most transistor radios were the size of a pack of ez-read playing cards and made in Japan.

As early as 1954 the Japanese had already cornered the tv market and were flooding the USA with underpriced TVs through Sears and Wards. Japanese housewives marched on the Ministry of Commerce(?) in protest of Japan's dumping policies at the expense of Japanese taxpayers. Americans could buy a TV cheaper than the Japanese.

This voracious marketing tactic (dumping) lasted for years, up through stereo systems, cameras, motorcycles, and eventually cars. The Japanese didn't exactly "copy", the took what we had innovated and then dicarded and improved on it and created a manufacturing base that blew us away. Yes, they out innovated us in some areas, cameras lenses for one, but most of it was still copy/improvement and taking a throw-away approach to keep prices competitive.

One perfect example is motorcycles. The japanese didn't invent overhead cams. They just discovered a way to make them so the cam turned in the bare aluminum head casting without the expense of bearings. Cheap, effective, and tossable, so there was no point in rebuilding. Buy a new one instead, and the Japanese design teams always had a new one (or ten!) in the ready.

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[LD]

You are either talking about the Trans-Oceanic, or were living on another planet. DAGS

[LD]

IOW, you don't want to know ...

[LD]

No, it didn't.

[notbob]

I'd dispute that statement ....if I had a clue what yer talking about.

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[Martin H. Eastburn]

We had a Trans-Oceanic - used it 8000 miles or so southwest from here :-) It allowed us to hear VOA and get skip out of the US from time to time. The only station within 2000 miles was AFRS controlled.

The stainless with black made it a nice radio.

Mart> "LD" writes:

[J. Clarke]

I'm just sick of people who have no sources instructing other to "DAGS". If you can't be assed to do the search yourself and post the relevant links then up yours and the horse you rode in on.

[J. Clarke]

Are you calling me a liar, s*****ad?

[LD]

[LD]

And your sources for the Original Assertion are ____________________________________

[LD]

No, I'm calling you an Imbecile.

[J. Clarke]

I see. So the limits of your rhetorical abilities are "DAGS" and name calling.

You _are_ the weakest link. G'bye.

[J. Clarke]

Personal experience. There is more to the world than Google you know.