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2010-09-11 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's because employers cant afford to pay us a living wage to produce a product. Oh, wait, Germans make more than us, get more vacation time, and their compa
Hmm, what in the world could be the problem?
Greed????

Nah!
Must be those darned Obstructionists in the Republican party.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-09-11 02:21|| 2010-09-11 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Try to find something 'Made in China' in a German, Austrian, or even Swiss store or business establisment. You'd be hard pressed to find Chi Tea.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-11 06:41|| 2010-09-11 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Try to find something 'Made in China' in a German, Austrian, or even Swiss store

There are plenty of "made in China" labels at the Euro stores (like Dollar Stores here) in Germany. For that matter, I bought a table cloth embroidered in China from one of the shops in my village back in 1994. But Germans are genearlly willing to spend more to get something that is well made and will last -- it's a cultural thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-09-11 07:41|| 2010-09-11 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Greed????

Bottom line. Just like in everyone's household. You want that wide screen LCD TV but don't want to lay out five thousand for it, you shop till someone delivers it at the store for under eight hundred. You want the processing power and ability to blitz the net on a 'personal computer', but don't want to lay out eight grand for it, just wait till someone else offers it for six hundred. If there is no demand, the supply will not be sustained. Multiply that by 300 million consumers for hundreds of millions of products and you get what we have. We asked for it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-09-11 09:07|| 2010-09-11 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Buy less stuff, buy better stuff that's built to last. We still know how to make that kind of stuff, don't we?

Oh, and eat less food, eat BETTER and fresher food. The French eat extremely fatty foods, they just eat 1/2 as much food each day as we do.

less/better stuff + less/better food = healthy wealthy and wise

Posted by lex 2010-09-11 10:02|| 2010-09-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

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