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- From: thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day)
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- Subject: Re: America Doesn't have a Chance (was:DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN?)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:24:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.004520.29380@leland.Stanford.EDU> strange@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mike Strange) writes:
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- >Let's just get one thing straight about all these domestic content arguments.
- >If you have ever been to Toyota Georgetown, Honda Marysville, NUMMI Fremont or
- >some of their suppliers, which I have, you will see that all the items that
- >are counted as part of domestic content are marginally domestic.
-
- >The people in these plants I have talked to have led me to believe that the
- >true domestic content is closer to 15-20%. Disturbingly, they all say that
- >true domestic content is shrinking. So, when you see that 51% of a Toyota
- >or Honda is domestic content, look at what is being counted, I think you will
- >be surprised.
-
- What most of the posters on this track don't seem to want to address is that
- manufacturing power and control of the world economy are the same *and* are
- the "moral equivalent" to war. Yep, war. We are fighting for survival
- against an "enemy" who knows us better than we know ourselves. Japan is
- going to kick our butts because we are almost totally unarmed in this
- battle. We have pitiful management skills, a treasonous government (
- Remember Reagan's $2 mil fee for a speach in Japan almost immediately after
- leaving office?), no will to do the hard job of designing and manufacturing
- consumer products, and a national tendancy toward decadance.
-
- It isn't a matter of America saying "yes" to Japan. We've already handed
- them the keys to the fort, they're just figuring out what parts of the
- spoils are desireable.
-