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From: griff@intelob.intel.com (Richard Griffith)
Newsgroups: misc.forsale,comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dram Prices...
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Date: 9 Jan 89 16:12:13 GMT
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In article <18814@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-4fl@widow.berkeley.edu (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
>in (Article 6832 of misc.forsale) (mms%sordid@Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein))
>writes:
>>In article <7745@lanl.gov> jxdl@lanl.gov (Jerry DeLapp) writes:
>>>*> 
>>>*> Dumping is not a natural market force! It is a concerted and
>>>*> focused effort involving sale of a commodity at lower than true
>>>*> value for the specific purpose of eliminating competitors from the
>>>*> market. In the case of RAM, there was specific support by the

gee - sounds like a wholesaler... kinda :-)

>>
>>So, the free market is fine until some one, other than ourselves, is
>>the winner. At that point, selling high quality merchandise at low

    yeah, nobody likes "losing" more than I do! :-) :-)

[ shortened up ]

>
>'Scuse me for saying so, but I think you are out of your mind.  
>
>The Japanese Government was subsidizing Japanese companies to sell DRAMs way
>below cost.  As such, there was no possible way that US Companies could stay

Sounds like a few American farmers I know - let's see, Uncle Sam pays
farmer Brown if he doesn't raise too many pigs.  Ok - HEY! Unca' Sam -
I'm not raising pigs either! Pay me!

[ more shortened ...]

But seriously folks...
 No, the Japanese government should not have subsidized that market,
and I think that the American government should a) shut off all hi-tech
trade or b) force the Japanese government to accept free trade of all
agricultural goods.  At $10/orange, we could HALF their price and wipe
out all Japanese farmers within the month.

                                - griff

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