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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12563)	3/7/2008 1:56:19 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I heard this somewhere but I have never gotten around to researching it. Someone said that the US had, in the very distant past, managed to have no income tax and relied solely on tariffs for government income. People are always so up in arms about limiting immigration of people but not in the limiting of immigration of products. IMO we could stand to consume less cheap stuff from China and other places and have fewer things (clothes, knick-knacks, amusements) and have them be of a higher quality. I had a PC that lasted over 10 years. It would have lasted 15 if the s/w could be upgraded. The monitor, keyboard, everything except for the ever-crumbling mouse were really solid. The PC after that lasted about 6 years before it started getting hinky. The one after that is still going but it is obsolete already and it is 4 years old. It is, however, on its second (or maybe third) hard disk. The new one is 6 months old and (unbelievably) the keys on the keyboard are no longer legible because the ink has worn off. I am now so wary of the new PCs going on the blink that I have to have off site storage. This is ridiculous. I do not need a new cell phone every year (or even two), I do not want to have to install a new PC every two years (or ever one from Dell again) and I'm sure that I do not need 20 pairs of sneakers or 50 t-shirts. We have gone crazy consuming poorly built products in great quantities. - The flip side is that, with the weakening dollar, manufacturing may come back our way.