Well said Art ! John kb2huk
On 9/27/2010 1:57 PM, Art Trampler wrote:
> One needs to remember that the surge in American prosprity, post WW2, was
> largly because with the possible exception of Argentina, the US had the only
> sizable industrial/manufacturing infratstructure left in the world. Bombs
> took care of the rest.Peron took care of Argentina.
>
> So for 25 years the only place one could turn for halfway decent to good
> consumder goods was the US; and for another 15 years, the only place to go
> for decent capital goods was the US.
>
> Under that system wages and benefits grew considerably as there was little
> (price) elasticity of demand for US made products, as substitutes were
> largely unavailable.
>
> This is no longer the case and said change, coupled with comparative
> advantages in labor and tax rates (and in many countries regulatory costs),
> makes the US goods relatively mroe expensive worldwide, even without an
> artificially devalued yuan. Of course productivity benefits used to offset
> the wage differential, but that gap is closing too.
>
> I think we need to recall the state of the world's industrial base post WW2
> to understand the arc that we are on.
>
> Art, KØRO
>
> PS: I'd happily own an Orion II and maybe an Eagle (let's hope it does not
> turn out to be a screaming chicken). There aren't many rigs for which I'd
> give up my Omni VI.
>
> PPS: Good thing this is not another reflector concerned more with vertically
> oriented implements of steel and aluminium; we'd have been warned to find a
> more suitable venue by now!
>
> --- On Mon, 9/27/10, Kris Merschrod<Kris@merschrod.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Kris Merschrod<Kris@merschrod.net>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle inflation costs, etc.
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:48 PM
>
>
> I, too have been drawn into the QSO here. If you use the US currancy
> inflater at :
>
> http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
>
> Then at $700 in 1978 the Titon would be $2,343 today. So T-T is running at
> the inflation rate. Unfortunately, the competition started off way below
> our wage rates and is still way below - hence the low cost of imported
> radios.
>
> Our blind faith in free-market ideology has kept us from looking around to
> see what is happening (or what was happening to other countries when we had
> the comparative advantage). Balanced trade would have been a better
> strategy, but, heck, when you are sitting at the card table and the chips
> are flowing your way, who would want to change the game?
>
> I wonder why the house keeps giving us more chips to play with when it is
> obvious that our luck has run out? Actually, the answer to that question is
> in a great book called "1421" It is about the Chinese navagation advances,
> but also about their trading policies way back then.
>
> We are playing checkers and they are playing Go.
>
> Moral of the story? Buy Tentec!
>
> Kris KM2KM
>
>
> Merschrod
> 123 Warren Road
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> www.merschrod.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pumbaa"<pinkertontommrs@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 12:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle
>
>
>> A lot of people did not have their income increase some 285% from 1978 to
>> today. That is the problem as companies can't sell as many ham radio sets
>> as they do large LCD TV sets. HTs now seem very cheap especially a certain
>> brand made in China. If your income has equaled the inflation rate then
>> today's radios are probably cheaper than those of 1978,
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "mike bryce"<prosolar@sssnet.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 10:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Eagle
>>
>>
>> This has been an interesting thread. It got me out of the shadows.
>>
>> I haven't looked it up but in 1978 the triton was someplace around $700
>> stripped with no noise blanker or cw filters, analog version.
>>
>> today that's about over two grand.
>> <Clip>
>>
>> Mike, WB8VGE
>> SunLight Energy Systems
>> The Heathkit Shop
>> http://www.theheathkitshop.com/
>> J e e p
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