Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 04:21:06 GMT References: <1991Jun23.203549.24627@wehi.dn.mu.oz>,<1991Jun23.201535.22178@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu><1991Jun23.211617.20407@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 35 taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > This is not always true. Strong, determined companies can succeed in >Japan. The latest issue of U.S. News and World Report has an article on >one company in particular that has been enormously successful in competing >with the Japanese on their own turf: Motorola. I have read about Motorola, I own one of their more expensive pagers...But anyways, a pager is a totally different market than a computer or a car, which every $30,000 Japanese car sold in America sucks $100,000 in filterdown money out of the Midwest Economy. We can not take cars, trucks, or minivans to Japan without getting $10,000 in taxes added onto them. Ever wonder about the budget deficit in the United States? Well, every US built car sold in the US, Canada, Mexico, or Europe(Yes, Chrysler exports 50,000 cars a year to Europe and is the number one exporter now) will put $6000 in taxes into Uncle Sam. Every Japanese car brought in only generates $300 in taxes...What does that do to the Econony? Totally screws it up....I read that if right now, we closed the border to Japanese products, the government generate enough money in taxes that would totally wipe out the entire deficit in a few years because of new construction, new investment, etc, to start building everything here again... They were talking about possiably $4 billion a month going into the econony thats not there now.. Toys 'R' US fought for 28 years to get a store set up in Japan. Now come on, thats totally outragous...The distribution network in Japan works on, ah, a very tight knit group of people who allow or deny products being sold. They want to export everything, and take in token amounts of products, just enough to say, "We do not keep people out of this marketplace" -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) No blood for oil! Raising C.A.F.E. to 40MPG is just that!