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- From: SteveWall@aol.com (Steve Wall)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japanese car)
- Message-ID: <SteveWall-210193171334@hipmac1.pica.army.mil>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:33:47 GMT
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- Everyone seems to be missing a few really basic points in this discussion
- of
- our trade imbalance. First: population and productivity. Japan has a
- comparatively small population and high productivity. USA has a high
- population and lower productivity. So long as we can't produce all that
- we want to consume, someone (Japanese or otherwise) is going to have a big
- trade imbalance with us.
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- A second point is about population itself. Even if we and the Japanese do
- lower all trade barriers (real and imagined) we'll still have a trade
- imbalance with them. The Japanese market (for cars, or anything) just
- isn't
- as big as ours. Couple this with the high housing costs in Japan, which
- severely limits the disposable income there, and you'll find the market
- prospects very poor indeed.
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- The USA needs to get to work fixing our own problems, not pointing fingers
- at imaginary bad guys.
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- Steve Wall
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- "We have met the enemy, and they are us" - Pogo
-