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Old 09-10-2008, 09:44 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by ProfessorM View Post
It is a disposable society. Family heirlooms are a thing of the past. People today want what they buy to be the cheapest they can get and don't care where it is made. I prefer to save up and buy the best , longest lasting products I can get usually. If it happens to be foreign made than that is what I buy. How can you compete with the foreign wage, environmental conditions, and lack of safety that is allowed in those country's? Pretty much can't. The writing has been on the wall since the Honda and the Toyota.
Agree with one exception, if you study manufacturing, you will learn that Honda and Toyota don't build less expensive vehicles through low wages and skirting environmental regulations but by a system of relentless continuous improvement.

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