On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 06:43:48 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:


. So everything coming from abroad is seen as bad.

I am sitting here in front of my imported computer, sitting on my

Hey! My Computer is 100% American... well as much as GM, Ford, or
Chrysler.

The motherboard came from china, the drives from Taiwan, Singapore,
and Japan. HOWEVER the Silicon in most of the chips came from
Michigan. The RAW Silicon was made here. The poly crystal was
shipped to Taiwan where it was made into single crystal and then cut
into wafers. The chips? Mostly Japan and Taiwan although more and
more are coming from China. My Router (D-Link) was made in China,
along my Link-Sys stuff. I didn't find any networking components,
regardless of brand that weren't made in China.

BUT it was 100% assembled here. Right here in my den with no
outsourcing. Albeit the software comes from all over the world and the
US companies are importing programmers from India. Still it (there
are 4 of them) was assembled, configured, and put into operation here
in the US.

I don't think there is a TV set made in the US any more.

imported chair, drinking my imported coffee, and not believing what I
am reading!

I don't drink coffee!


I don't know for sure, but I suspect that every stitch of clothing I
am wearing was imported too.

Probably by child labor in sweat shops.

When I drive to the end of the road to
fetch the newspaper (that is probably largely an American product) I

But in a plastic Chinese mail box?
I actually have a steel, US manufactured mail box from US steel.
Of course it's flanked by one for the paper and one for the shopping
guide that are of Chinese plastic.

will be using an automobile that, while built in Maryland, bears a
foreign mark.

Even if you purchased an American brand car you will find many parts
in it came from other countries.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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