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- From: murthy+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Sesh Murthy)
- Subject: Re: Whining about buying American cars
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- In article <2179@shaman.wv.tek.com>, andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:
- |> []
- |>
- |> "For comparable products I prefer my money to go and put food
- |> on some kid from Detroit's table rather than be used somewhere
- |> else."
- |>
- |> Let's drag it out into the sunlight. You'd rather help feed a kid from
- |> Detroit than a kid from Tsutsumi. Is this not racism?
- |>
- |> -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- |> (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
- Andrew, this is not playing fair. What you are doing is the equivalent of
- McCarthyism. Labelling something communist meant that you could not
- discuss it then. Labelling something as racism means that it automatically
- becomes bad now.
-
- In fact I admire the Japanese. They are the first people to show in this
- century that you do not have to be white to be smart.
-
- However the question has nothing to do with race. Can you as an engineer
- or factory worker go and work in Japan if you lost your job.
-
- If Wang were to become so powerful that IBM went out of business, I would
- not care. I could go and work for Wang presumably. (yes I know Wang went
- bankrupt but I am just making a point.)
-
- But if Toyota, designing its cars and making most of the parts in Japan,
- manages to make GM and Chrysler close up 50% of their plants
- then a whole host of people get unemployed here and they cannot go to
- work in Japan. I get to pay the taxes to
- keep these people alive, and I get to deal with the society that decays
- because of a lack of jobs. Lastly where is my daughter going to find
- jobs if I managed to export all jobs to foreign countries.
-
- If I because of my shortsighted greed force American plants to close,
- a whole host of manufacturing skills will disappear. Does anyone know
- how to mass-produce TVs VCRs and Flat-panel displays in the US anymore.
-
- Do you want the same thing to happen to car manufacturing.
-
- Buying American is just common sense. It has nothing to do
- with racism. I do not even belong to the same race as the people
- who make my cars.
-
- Sesh Murthy
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