[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', ' ')I'm always happy to pay more for american goods....But tell me does anyone in the USA make tires? clothes? shoes?

[jedrider]

Yes, it is kind of sad, when the wealthy would not only throw everyone else under the bus, but also their children and their children's future under the bus (aka global warming and peak resources). It appears they are no more capable of getting off this path than the average person.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', '[')u]All of you are way overpaid

WHEN compared to the average Chinese worker.

It's a sad world these days, when everything and everyone is thought of as an entry in an accounts ledger, and very little else.

We debase & devalue each other, whilst the rich, TPTB are laughing, all the way to the bank. (who also laugh at us - even louder).

Sad, sad world. Shitty 2010, BAU.

Gasmon

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', '[')u]All of you are way overpaid

WHEN compared to the average Chinese worker.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', ' ')I'm always happy to pay more for american goods....But tell me does anyone in the USA make tires? clothes? shoes?

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GASMON', '
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Sorry, I don't "Employ" the chinaman. I am "forced" either to buy his goods, made with slave labour, western goods at a higher price (IF available), or nothing at all.

Like many I look to see (wherever possible) where goods is made. It's then a trade off against country / price / quality.

I'm sure you, Pretorian, do much the same.

Gasmon

[MarkJ]

Often the only way we can sell customers more expensive U.S. manufactured products is by eating the mark-up, selling them at a loss or by not offering them lower priced imported alternatives.

I'm not talking big bucks either. Many customers will choose cheaper imported parts, or re-use parts if it will save them 5/10 bucks on a service call, 5/10 bucks on a repair or 50 bucks on an installation.

The first call-back, emergency service call or repair often costs them several hundred bucks.