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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (65202)	7/24/1999 8:56:00 PM
From: Joan Osland Graffius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB, >>The poor dealers hand me credit applications and don't know what to do when I scratch "N/A" across them. <g> The last experience I had buying a car was interesting. When we had agreed on a price, I whipped out my checkbook and started writing. (Just a plain old fashion check.) The sales person and finance person were scrambling like heck, because they were assuming I was going to use their credit, which gives them some margin in price. It is fun to play the game and win once in a while. I don't think this happens very often.<ggg> I have had some thoughts on our economy, god forbid. I am not sure we understand what parametrics are relevant to a service based economy. I don't think we manufacture hardly anything anymore in this country. We do some assembly type of production but most of the goods and parts/subassemblies come from overseas. The things we do make with labor, like software, etc. can be replaced down the street in a short amount of time and does not bring down the whole economy, like in the old days when GM quit making cars the food chain effect was much greater. Now we are global, but the labor food chain is much smaller because of automation. I wonder if we are tracking our countries economic health based on an industrial economy which could different and irrelevant. This thread had been discussing many of these parametrics, but our economic history is very different than where we are today and where we seem to be going. Do you have any thoughts on this? Joan