[DeTomaso] NPC - Where are vehicles made
Bill Lewis
lotus0005 at hotmail.com
Tue May 10 09:25:54 EDT 2011
Mikael, are the windmills, "American style," or "Danish style?" We have quite a few of the former down here in Texas! --Bill (lots of wind in Texas, too) Lewis
> From: mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:11:52 +0200
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - Where are vehicles made
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> I'm neither for nor against "Buy American", hard to have an opinion about
> from over here. I do tell my colleagues to "buy American", when their Mini
> is in the garage for cold start problems for the 5th time, and my then Jeep
> GC never had a problem. J
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> But on whether to buy from one's own country or not, I want to share a
> story. I worked for Eastman Kodak from 1988 to 1998. Kodak had a bad time,
> kept laying off people. I then read a book about it, called Changing Focus.
> In that book was stories about families that had always worked for Eastman
> Kodak, it was the place to work if you lived in the Rochester area. And you
> would work there all your life. Husband and wife had been laid off, and
> didn't get work for years, had to sell cars and later house, very tragic.
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> And now to the point. That man and wife couple were critical of their fellow
> Americans, because they bought Fujitsu film, why wouldn't their fellow
> Americans support American companies and workers, and buy Kodak? A valid
> question I guess. But on the next page it was mentioned that they had to
> sell their 3 cars: A Volvo, a Saab and a BMW. They clearly couldn't be
> satisfied with anything being produced in the US at that time, but they
> expected their fellow Americans to buy Kodak film, even if Fujitsu may have
> been better value (which is was, due to subsidies from the Japanese
> government)
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> "Buy Danish!" We're big in bacon, windmills, insulin and container shipping
> J
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