Japanese products

[Pavel Olavich]

Originally Posted by CompanyXPaladin

The only thing I have to add to the quality control and higher quality, more reliable product is that nearly every Japanese corporation received major government funding to stay in business. The Japanese government has an active interest in ensuring only quality products leave Japan - they effectively have an investment in all major Japanese corporations. To them, the products leaving Japan represent Japan as a whole. They also have an interest in an economic war with several countries of the world, but thats all politics I'm sure no one is interested in.

This is patently not true. In Japan, Nikon, Canon, Mitsubishi will sink or swim on their own. Sure the government facilitates, and is there to do what it can, but I assure you, the Japanese government does not subsidize companies there as standard policy. Their commerce department fights for those companies sure, but to keep exports flowing, and making sure they're treated fairly by other countries, which is a far cry from subsidizing. From their point of view, a company has to stand on it's own feet, sink or swim....some call this "tough love"...and can be applied to raising kids, for that matter....your kid gets locked up for DUI, DON'T bail him out....doing so only hurts him, his future....so goes it with Honda, Toyota and other Japanese firms....

The US Government is selling us all out. Who is there for the working man? The professional guy? Nobody....greedy corporations would rather take our jobs and send them off shore....it's capitalism gone awry...they forgot about us "family" members....mom and dad give the job's in their store to outsiders, and their kids go wanting....but hey, nothing personal, right? Just business. :-(

I'm all for open economies, free trade and all that, but within limits, within a time frame....the jet blast of off shoring is too much too soon, causing a shock to us American working people....open up markets but do it slow, with limits, and over a reasonable time frame....

About Japanese....it may come as a shock to many of you, but the truth is, American workers are more productive then their Japanese counterparts, even as our quality is less....talk about a paradox....

[YarisTom73]

Originally Posted by Pavel Olavich

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The US Government is selling us all out. Who is there for the working man? The professional guy? Nobody....greedy corporations would rather take our jobs and send them off shore....it's capitalism gone awry...they forgot about us "family" members....mom and dad give the job's in their store to outsiders, and their kids go wanting....but hey, nothing personal, right? Just business. :-(

I'm all for open economies, free trade and all that, but within limits, within a time frame....the jet blast of off shoring is too much too soon, causing a shock to us American working people....open up markets but do it slow, with limits, and over a reasonable time frame....
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True that, brother... sad but true

[ChinoCharles]

I remember not a decade ago when "Made in Blank" was a bad thing. Oh, how things have changed. Way to outsource, American business!

Pavel, I agreed with you as well and I am so confused.

[ChinoCharles]

We went from Japanese products to communism.

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