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Politics : US Government Attack on Gibson Guitar -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CF Rebel who wrote (115)	10/16/2011 10:59:09 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 227

“We had no choice,” Juszkiewicz said. “The things the Justice Department was doing was closing down our business and laying low was just not an option"

To: CF Rebel who wrote (115)	10/16/2011 11:01:35 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 227

On Wednesday, he told The Daily Caller there could be casualties from the DOJ’s actions, first of which he said may be higher guitar prices. “It’s a zero-sum game,” he said. “You don’t create money out of thin air. So a dollar goes to lawyers in Washington, D.C. is a dollar that comes out of our consumers’ pockets, period.” But he also cautioned that American jobs could be lost and sent overseas. “You know, there’s a very real possibility we will have to move at least some processing [jobs] overseas,” Juszkiewicz said. “I’m trying to avoid that. But you know, I have to do what the business requires, and that’s a very realistic possibility.”