I
believe in made in America too, but in today's global economy, it's a thing of
the past.? Do we want our TV's to be hand wired by hundreds of people
sitting at work stations?? I don't think so.? No one has a captive
internal market anymore, except for maybe China.? I don't think we want to
manager our economy they way they do.
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Some
one commented about US R&D spending.? We really do spend as Carl Segan
said "billions and billions" of dollars on R&D.? It's just that we
don't spend it on PlayStations, telephones that take pictures and play
music,?and similar useless gadgets for automobiles. What real value is a
car that parallel parks itself?? The result of our R&D spending?is
not as obvious but in the long run a lot more beneficial to our
economy.
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Where
the US has fallen down is upgrading our infrastructure.? What ever happened
to an optical fiber telephone system promised years ago.? We have a few
optical links but the majority is still copper at what band
width?
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David
KC2JD
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Made in America?? Things should be, my
son is in the Air Force and ships out to Iraq on the 3rd of Jan. He was
showing me his equipment going with him. The jump quality backpack and other gear made for our
service men and women, made in America ??? NO----made in China ----no it is made in
Vietnam. I am 62 and I remember a little problem with them in my
younger days.
?I don¡¯t have a
workable solution, but what we have scares me. If someone built a simple radio
or amp and tried to sell it would any one buy it? Would they spend their on
the next generation of bells and whistle system from across the
pond?
Rich
