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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: Domestic Content Laws
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.053953.10721@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 05:39:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.175954.9892@athena.mit.edu> tgardner@athena.mit.edu
- (Timothy J Gardner) writes:...
- >The Japanese manufacturers build some great products. So do the US companies.
- >Don't support the junk, buy the good cars, and at least be willing to look
- >at the American cars with an open mind.
- >Manufacturing equals national prosperity. You may have your ass covered for
- >now in the service sector, but as we lose manufacturing jobs, our standard of
- >living declines, and your children are going to live in smaller houses, drive
- >junkier cars, and have fewer electonic toys than we do. That is the
- >consequence for sending wealth out of our country. I'm tired of hearing
- >people trying to rationalize their way out of this responsibility. It's
- >time we grow up as a nation and accept the consequences of our actions.
-
- The best solution is domestic-content laws, not quotas. The Japanese still
- get to sell their vehicles, but they must _engineer_, manufacture, and
- assemble them with the sweat and tears of American labor. There should be
- a mandatory phase out of any car with less than 90% domestic content.
-
- I do not mind the collapse of Chrysler, Ford, or GM in favor of Nissan,
- Honda, and Toyota as long as the national prosperity is maintained. Mr.
- Gardner is quite right in saying that the national wealth depends
- on manufacturing.
-
- What I propose is much tougher than current domestic-content laws. It
- does one thing that current laws don't do; it requires that the engineering
- be done in the USA (at least 90% of it). This is a form of technology
- transfer to America.
-
- What's neat is that this also encourages a competitive atmosphere, letting
- the Japanese companies sell as many vehicles as they want, which quota
- laws don't do. (Unlike many people, I still believe that the quality of
- American labor--especially engineers--is as good as in Japan.)
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