[AT] Re: Chinese Iron

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Fri Dec 2 06:27:39 PST 2005


Hi Larry,

Personally I hate talking to a Indian tech or customer service rep on the 
phone.  Primarily because I just can't understand them.  However, using 
those offshore resources is simply a market decision just like buying the 
winch that started this thread.  In time, (not soon enough to satify me) 
things will change.  The Asian economies will shift and you will see some of 
those jobs move back to the US.  I'm not so sure about the manufacturing 
jobs.  Unless the Gov't does something to mediate the high cost of 
environmental and regulatory requirements in this country, we might never 
see many new heavy industrial jobs come back.  I'm not saying our 
environmental and regulatory laws are necessarily bad.  I am saying that our 
competition in Asia doesn't have to live up to those standards.

Meanwhile everytime we buy a bag of cement to work on our tractor shops we 
are paying a highly inflated price because China is buying up the worlds 
supply of cement to build infrastructure that we are paying for.  That goes 
for the high price of fuel as well.

By the way.  There is a Chineese car company that has teamed up with that 
fellow Bricklin that is famous in the auto industry.  They are building a 
car for export to the US that is supposed to be world class quality 
comparable to BMW and Benz that will compete in the market for folks that 
buy Lexus, etc and will sell in the price range of Chevy, Ford and Toyota. 
That is according to Bricklin in a TV interview I saw a couple of weeks ago. 
We will see how it turns out.

I guess some made in China replacement fenders and hoods for our antique 
tractors wouldn't be such a bad thing.  LOL

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Sikes" <larry at rockridgefarm.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Chinese Iron


>I work for a large mutual fund company that Outsourced
> most of our IS function to India and the hardware care and
> feeding to Canada. It was supposed to save big bucks.
> Now we have 5 times as many people doing the job half
> as well. The interesting thing is that the wages in India
> are doing what wages did here in the 70/80's. It is only a
> mater of time till they will end up costing 5 to 10 times as
> much as the people we got rid of with lower quality. Even
> more interesting is to hear the upper management
> constantly telling us what a great success this move was.
> Time will tell but I think America will suffer greatly in the
> next 20 years from all the importing and outsourcing.
> We will become a dependent country.
> We have a greedy upper class who wants to put as much
> difference between themselves and the rest of us that it
> will eventually destroy the American way.
> We need to somehow form a viable third party to take
> on the other 2 parties.
> Tractor reference - All my old tractors were made in the
> USA. My New Holland was made in Italy.
>
> Larry Sikes
> Rock Ridge Farm
> http://rockridgefarm.com
> mailto:larry at rockridgefarm.com
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