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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <louis.724643493@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:51:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.204855.807@ms.uky.edu> <1992Dec15.214210.19181@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Dec16.014403.2407@cirrus.com>
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- dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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- >In <1992Dec15.214210.19181@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- >rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
-
- >>Let's get this discussion back on the REAL message of the
- >>original post: the Japanese coordinated attack on industry
- > ^alleged
- >>in the US, and the mercantilistic trading practices of Japan.
-
- >Do you know when the US will get back on track? When it stops blaming
- >Japan.
-
- You don't have to "blame" Japan, just inderstand what Japan has done to
- the US, some of it because of American stupidity, but a lot of it because
- of the policy of Nippon Ichiban -- No 1 at all costs. Please read
- Clyde Prestowitz' scholarly work, "Trading Places." You will be
- amazed.
-
- >And they would have a LOT to save and invest if they were not paying
- >around 60% of their earnings in taxes. THAT is a real problem.
-
- Bullshit! Americans pay the *least* in taxes, both federal and state
- and municipal of *all* industrialized nations. Source, Thurow, "Head
- to Head" page 269.
-
- Part of the problem is the lack of political will to say NO to Japan!
- --
- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
-