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Date:         Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:03:14 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: cheap vanagon skylights
Comments: To: PJBerr <berr@ROGERS.COM>
Comments: cc: Ben Tan <syncro@gmail.com>
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At 11:11 AM 1/3/2012, PJBerr wrote: >All of us North Americans suffer from the outsourcing of the manufacture of >everything to cheap labour markets. They build junk because they build to >'spec'. Whose 'spec' are they building too do you suppose? Take a >BlackBerry, iPhone or any other hi-tech item apart and see how excellently >they make stuff. > >Not only do we have them make our things, we have them make cheap junk to >sell to ourselves. When you see garbage from China, it is the North American >company that asked them to build it so. > >Capitalism at its' finest.

I think this is very well said, and I'm quoting all of it for that reason. Thanks.

Having said that...this aspect of the skylight conversation has gotten far enough away from Vanagons that I think we'd better leave it for Friday.

Thanks, d mod


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