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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10)	10/29/2003 4:45:21 PM
From: Steve Felix	Respond to of 34

Corrigan, you should have at least read the post. This is a statement by someone who didn't read the post. Either that or you think charging Americans more is the thing to do. "Felix, many countries are flooding the market with cheap goods like textbooks in order to put American companies out of business." A few excerpts: "We think it's frightening, and it's wrong, that the same American textbooks our stores buy here for $100 can be shipped in from some other country for $50," said Laura "That is changing, though. To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States." "The sale of identical books to foreign buyers at prices significantly lower than to domestic buyers, while publicly stating that domestic prices are due to high costs, could constitute an unfair or deceptive act," the letter said. "None of the three major textbook publishers — Pearson, McGraw Hill, and Thomson — would discuss why overseas prices are so much lower than domestic ones, referring all questions to Allen Adler, the lawyer for the American Association of Publishers." Point being that your "American companies" could give a hoot about you. You think foreign companies should pay more in taxes. I can't disagree. Why don't we start right here by not subsidizing their education with our dollars. What's wrong with this statement? "Mr. Adler contends that foreign textbook prices are pegged to the per capita income and economic conditions of the destination countries — and that foreign sales are a boon to America's standing in the world, to foreign students seeking an American-quality education, and even to American consumers, since each extra copy sold overseas, even at a low price, helps to spread the high costs of putting out a new textbook." Let's help them take our jobs!! When " they " came for my job and saw that I was thirty feet in the air walking on skinny beams between big spaces, " they " left. hehe I can't find what Thian Hoo Tan, the Chairman and CEO of Komag made last year, but I am sure he took a cut trying to keep jobs here. roflmao!! This statement is just plain hogwash: What most Americans don't realize, however, is that same foreign company that manufactures their cars here is causing a lot of other American workers to lose their jobs because they import more of their parts compared to American automobile companies. As a result, many of the American workers who used to make automobile parts for American companies are now being laid off. The problem is that there are a lot more parts workers being laid off than there are manufacturing workers being hired. This means that buying a foreign car made in the USA is a job destroyer rather than a job creator, and is one reason why foreign investment does not reduce imports. The UAW estimated that by the mid-1990s, at least 500,000 American jobs had been eliminated because of foreign owned automobile manufacturers operating in the United States. So by simply buying an American-owned company's product, we often help keep more Americans employed in the parts industry. If you think Ford and General Motors weren't quick to start getting parts made elsewhere you are dreaming. You better check under your hood. Geo Prizms are not American made. Made by Toyota, sold by GM to take American money, for a Japanese product. You see they don't mind selling foreign products to you. It is about the MONEY. American auto manufacturers got their heads handed to them on quality and durability. I haven't driven anything but Toyotas for almost twenty years. You see "cheap goods" aren't always cheap goods. Our tax dollars bailed out Chrysler. How did we make out with that? I guess we did subsidize some jobs for a while. But in the end, it is about product and money.