[SEL] @#$%! Chinese Tools

[Tom Dunlap]

yeah, ya gotta love us yanks..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Skinner" <rskinner at rustyiron.com>
To: "Stationary-Engine ATIS" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] @#$%! Chinese Tools


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> On 8/21/06 2:23 PM, "Tom Dunlap" <tdunlap at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> Chinese tools reflect the whole walmart concept of "cheaper is better".
>> and we buy it....
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> Here's something to think about and to bring the conversation fully on
> topic...
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> A long time ago on a continent far, far away, there were dudes building
> engines.  They were Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, and even a few of 
> those
> Scotsmen...  The engines that they built were fabulous creations.  They 
> were
> complex mechanisms built to a high degree of precision.  Not only were 
> these
> engines built for functionality, but they were built with an equal concern
> for aesthetics.
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> Then a few years later, a bunch of uncivilized yahoos across the ocean and
> half a world away got the notion that they, too, could build engines.  But
> these yahoos only copied the basic concepts of the existing engines.  They
> took the basic idea, cheapened it up, eliminated expensive parts, ignored
> precision and abandoned aesthetics.  These "engine" builders flooded 
> markets
> with their inexpensive machines.  Established builders of "quality" 
> engines
> fell by the wayside as consumers snapped up the cheap copies.
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> Who were the manufacturers of these sloppy imitations?  They called
> themselves "Americans."  They were to become the most powerful industrial
> force the world has ever known.
>
> So it would appear that the Wal-Mart Concept was alive and well long 
> before
> Sam Walton ever started offering goods and discounted prices...
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> Rob
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> Rob Skinner
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