JBL manufacturing in China

[jim3860]

Great for you! Only time I hit Walmart is for prescriptions - I never buy food or goods there ... but we aren't the prime problem. Venture to say most of us are fairly comfortable - certainly have enough extra to have a speaker hobby but folks who are tight on their money shop these places to make ends meet. Younger folks without the older values shop these places so they can get more, and some of the folks who weren't born here shop there to stretch their dollars as well.

So, bottom line, no matter how many of us (boomer) folks stay out of Wally world, I don't think were the big problem - so, how to you stop the others, short of tarrifs on imports or land use policies that discourage big box stores ... ?
How do we talk JBL into going to the boutique market?
Sadly I think that's not possible, and they're just going to be the Memorex, RCA and Zenith of this decade ...

So sad ...

I know that the few of us older people that still prefer to shop as much as possible for USA made products and that try to support our local economy and small businesses isnt going to change the world and yes it is sad being able to see the big picture and yet not being able to change it. Everything that we as a country do today will affect us later.

REGARDS JIM

[JeffW]

My dad is a long time member of the NRA, but I think he's about done with them.

There's not a more RAH RAH USA! organization around, but each year he gets a little membership "gift"- a hat, a knife, a T-Shirt, etc., and they are all Made in China. And he let them know about it (he has a tendency to do that). Didn't change a thing except his membership status as of next year.

Who knows, he's 84 now and has 3 different 280Z variants, so it's not that he's utterly opposed to foreign goods- we had Volkswagon Beetles when I was a kid- but he sure doesn't like the juxtaposition of the NRA jingoism and their Chinese trinket gifts.

[Wagner]

My dad is a long time member of the NRA, but I think he's about done with them.

There's not a more RAH RAH USA! organization around, but each year he gets a little membership "gift"- a hat, a knife, a T-Shirt, etc., and they are all Made in China. And he let them know about it (he has a tendency to do that). Didn't change a thing except his membership status as of next year.

Who knows, he's 84 now and has 3 different 280Z variants, so it's not that he's utterly opposed to foreign goods- we had Volkswagon Beetles when I was a kid- but he sure doesn't like the juxtaposition of the NRA jingoism and their Chinese trinket gifts.

I don't think anyone is opposed to "foreign goods", just opposed to being dependent on foreigners............for every God damned thing under the Sun. The old "dependence on foreign oil" thing just makes me laugh and then cry a little bit. If it were only oil we'd be in good shape.

That's what I'm opposed to anyway.

Thomas

[Wagner]

Maybe not speakers, or anything else so much any more, but I do think we're still the World leaders in super filthy PORN!

It's sumthin'

Just sayin',

Thomas

[jim3860]

I don't think anyone is opposed to "foreign goods", just opposed to being dependent on foreigners............for every God damned thing under the Sun. The old "dependence on foreign oil" thing just makes me laugh and then cry a little bit. If it were only oil we'd be in good shape.

That's what I'm opposed to anyway.

Thomas

Agreed we are "NOW" a nation of consumers versus producers.



REGARDS JIM

[Wagner]

Made in U. S. A. porn put the video cassette, camera and VCR within reach of any American with a job. Hey, when they first appeared in the early '70s only Hugh Hefner, movie stars and other Heads of State could afford one!

And no more foolin' with those pesky reels! Life was good during those "service based" economic times!

What a shot in the arm that was for the Asian electronic giants!

Trickle down economics at it's best!

Need to start thinkin' about rampin' that deal back up! There's a cure and a solution in there somewhere!

Thomas

[hjames]

So - do the chinese get off on American Porn??
Isthat how to balance the trade, ya think?

Somehow I doubt it ... I'm guess they have cheaper labour in that industry as well ...

Made in U. S. A. porn put the video cassette, camera and VCR within reach of any American with a job. Hey, when they first appeared in the early '70s only Hugh Hefner, movie stars and other Heads of State could afford one!

And no more foolin' with those pesky reels! Life was good during those "service based" economic times!

What a shot in the arm that was for the Asian electronic giants!

Trickle down economics at it's best!

Need to start thinkin' about rampin' that deal back up! There's a cure and a solution in there somewhere!

Thomas

[scott fitlin]

Porn, who makes it, who buys it, WHO CARES! Has NOTHING to do with JBL, thread is closed.