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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (211811)	12/31/2002 10:08:33 AM
From: Tom M	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Jim, problem I've found is that it keeps getting harder and harder to find quality because the junk prices the quality out of the market. Or the quality starts turning to junk ala: "send in the engineers, we have to cut cost out of the product". I've seen a lot of expensive woodworking machinery compromised with fragile plastic parts, thinner metal and improperly machined surfaces. Same for much of the stuff you find at Home Depot. Materials, appliance & fixtures aren't what they were even a few years ago. Then you go back to Depot to get a part for your kitchen faucet & find they're always throwing out the old line for the latest cheaper line China's turning out. The longer it goes on the more painfully obvious the need for corrective business cycles to be allowed to run their course. IMO we'd be WAY better off if were allowed to re-group around "irrational exuberance" time. This depression wouldn't be so depressing if they didn't keep ripping us off more and more in every way possible. As we've found out, that wasn't in the boyz cards <g/ng> Tom

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