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- From: thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day)
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- Subject: America Doesn't have a Clue (was Say Yes to Japan)
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:45:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.134441.5019@hellgate.utah.edu> llarsen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Loren Larsen) writes:
- >These plants will contribute $226 to $452 billion dollars to the US and
- >Canadian economies over the next 10-20 years and provide 60,000 American
- >jobs. This transplanting trend has just begun.
-
- >Earlier (in a previous post), I mentioned that it is highly advantageous for
- >Japanese companies to move their plants to the US because the cost of
- >transportation represents a huge portion of the consumer price of a product.
- >Due to lower costs in labor through automation etc., and the lower cost of
- >raw materials.
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- Doesn't it bother you that we have become a great source for cheap labor and
- materials? We may be defining the space between first and third world.
-
- >Certainly the Japanese aren't great gift horses trying to give America a break.
- >I believe they are unfair in their hiring and firing practices based on
- >ethnic origin. They will destroy themselves long before they destroy America.
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- This seems to depend heavily on the "truth and justice will win out"
- theory. Their "hiring and firing practices" could also be a great source of
- strength. They don't have to deal with multicultural differences,
- multilingual language barriers, or minority discrimination problems. They
- can concentrate on the goal: world manufacturing and economic dominance.
-