Detroit Vs Japan
05-26-2005, 08:28 PM
#191
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Re: Detroit Vs Japan
I've been thinking about this kind of stuff, trying to decide what to study
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
05-26-2005, 08:28 PM
#192
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Re: Detroit Vs Japan
I've been thinking about this kind of stuff, trying to decide what to study
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
05-26-2005, 08:28 PM
#193
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Detroit Vs Japan
I've been thinking about this kind of stuff, trying to decide what to study
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
in college...
I'm great at computers and originally went in for a computer science degree,
but since I've been wrenchin on this jeep I have been getting more
interested in working on cars...
Do you think being a dealership mechanic is a safe bet?
05-26-2005, 09:19 PM
#194
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Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Everything you say is true. But what you are describing is a the beginning
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
05-26-2005, 09:19 PM
#195
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Posts: n/a
Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Everything you say is true. But what you are describing is a the beginning
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
05-26-2005, 09:19 PM
#196
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Everything you say is true. But what you are describing is a the beginning
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
05-26-2005, 09:19 PM
#197
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Everything you say is true. But what you are describing is a the beginning
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
stages of a fundamental shift in global economics, and whining about how it
affects the US economy simply isn't going to help. Trying to understand what
to do to adjust to it *will* help. Because the world is no longer going to
adjust to us. If you can't be bothered to understand that, you will be one
of the ones left behind.
"Ruel Smith" <NoWay@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
news:10ba0$42966381$4275e06e$1244@FUSE.NET...
> Matt Macchiarolo wrote:
>
>> Innovation. Read Tom Friedman's book.
>
> Pie in the sky...
>
> I'm not bothering to read Tom Friedman's book. What happens when something
> is innovated? They can just ship those jobs elsewhere too. What's to stop
> them?
>
> Do yourself and everyone a favor and just look at how it all works. We're
> commoditizing jobs in this country and shipping them to somewhere else
> where we can exploit the labor force there. This doesn't save the consumer
> except where price is the selling point, such as Walmart. Even they get as
> much as they can out of the consumer while undercutting the competition.
> However, most items sell for the same price when they move production to
> some 2nd or 3rd world country as they did when they built it in the USA
> and
> actually paid their workers a decent living. Anyone who contests this
> obviously hasn't taken economics. All we're doing is making those foreign
> economies stronger, while weakening our own. Since 1980, our trade
> deficits
> have grown, jobs have fled the US, and this country is being stripped of
> any goods to sell the rest of the world in order to compete.
>
>
> --
>
> Registered Linux user #378193
05-26-2005, 09:50 PM
#198
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Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Not a troll, Bill. If you would read what was written you would
plainly see that I did not say a coal mining company used a Toyota.
What I did say was that several real men and women who make their
living off the mineral industries that support our community choose to
spend their hard earned money on Japanese trucks. The local coal
mining company uses Ford and GM products. Maybe you should be a little
more attentive and a little slower to jump to conclusions and insult
people. You notice that I didn't call you an ******** right out of the
gate. Sometimes you can be the most helpful person on this group, but
other times you seem short on ears and long on mouth. By the way, I am
happy you have had good luck with your Ford.
L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> What a troll! No coal mining Company, would every use a toyota:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search
> And my Ford has over three hundred and fifty thousand miles and the
> heads have never been off: http://www.----------.com/smog.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Scotty wrote:
> ><snip BS>
05-26-2005, 09:50 PM
#199
Guest
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Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Not a troll, Bill. If you would read what was written you would
plainly see that I did not say a coal mining company used a Toyota.
What I did say was that several real men and women who make their
living off the mineral industries that support our community choose to
spend their hard earned money on Japanese trucks. The local coal
mining company uses Ford and GM products. Maybe you should be a little
more attentive and a little slower to jump to conclusions and insult
people. You notice that I didn't call you an ******** right out of the
gate. Sometimes you can be the most helpful person on this group, but
other times you seem short on ears and long on mouth. By the way, I am
happy you have had good luck with your Ford.
L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> What a troll! No coal mining Company, would every use a toyota:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search
> And my Ford has over three hundred and fifty thousand miles and the
> heads have never been off: http://www.----------.com/smog.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Scotty wrote:
> ><snip BS>
05-26-2005, 09:50 PM
#200
Guest
Posts: n/a
Re: Detroit Vs Japan
Not a troll, Bill. If you would read what was written you would
plainly see that I did not say a coal mining company used a Toyota.
What I did say was that several real men and women who make their
living off the mineral industries that support our community choose to
spend their hard earned money on Japanese trucks. The local coal
mining company uses Ford and GM products. Maybe you should be a little
more attentive and a little slower to jump to conclusions and insult
people. You notice that I didn't call you an ******** right out of the
gate. Sometimes you can be the most helpful person on this group, but
other times you seem short on ears and long on mouth. By the way, I am
happy you have had good luck with your Ford.
L.W. ------ III (ßill) wrote:
> What a troll! No coal mining Company, would every use a toyota:
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...22&btnG=Search
> And my Ford has over three hundred and fifty thousand miles and the
> heads have never been off: http://www.----------.com/smog.jpg
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> mailto:--------------------
>
> Scotty wrote:
> ><snip BS>