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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.150141.28779@cs.ucf.edu>
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
- References: <BzGp92.9Gr@tss.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:01:41 GMT
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- In article <BzGp92.9Gr@tss.com> burke@tss.com (Jim Burke) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec17.123430.24528@hellgate.utah.edu>,
- llarsen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Loren Larsen) writes:
- >
- > |> BZZT! WRONG! Consider that almost 80% of all Honda cars are made from
- > |> the ground up in the US.
- >
- > There is another big reason that foreign companies, including Japanese ones,
- > locate assembly plants in the U.S. That is so that they can avoid paying
- > a lot of income taxes on the huge profits they make from the U.S. market.
-
- I saw a New Yorker Cartoon:
- An auto dealership, the salesman talking to a couple looking at
- a car. He is saying:
- "And it's made in America with Japanese know-how!"
-
- Sad, but true.
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
- 12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
- (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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