Pete,
I understand your plight. Competing against cheap labor in China is
nearly a losing battle, especially when American companies no longer
consider themselves to be American companies, but rather
multinationals.
Treason can be defined as giving defense secrets to other countries
under false pretenses, but in today's climate, dismantling the only
non-asian manufacturer capable of producing a critical, irreplacable
guidance system component for our key weapons systems is simply
considered to be good business practice, not treason.
Run a google search on the words MAGNEQUENCH and CHINA to learn about
what many consider to be the worst example yet of an American company
engaging in treason. A keyword search on MAGNEQUENCH at the
insightmag.com website will turn up three articles that may make your
skin crawl. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=search
I applaud you for your efforts to stay American!
Thank you Pete!
73 de KD9BO Steve
ps: before anyone flames me for going off topic, please do the search
and read the links. Then write to your Congressmen and Senators in
outrage.
Well, said, Doc. I'm a manufacturer in a small industry who has
watched most of my competition go "offshore" because of the utterly
reckless actions of a relatively small number of political
appointees. And when you want to place blame for offshoring, do the
arithmetic. Then do the research.
It takes three to five years between the boardroom decision to move
a plant until enough product has made it onshore to start issuing
layoff slips. Who was in office three to five years ago? What were
the policies that made major employers look overseas? Why were those
policies in place? And why did the then administration fail to
address those policies?
The people we elect haven't a clue about what's going on - unless we
tell them. And even when we tell them, forcing a bureaucrat to
reverse course takes an act of Congress. A few who serve "at the
will of the President" can be removed - provided said crony does not
provide enough money to the incumbents
re-election campaign, or to the financial markets, to make in
inconvenient to tie a can to his tail. And provided the appointees
actions do not represent the political philosophy of the President.
All in all, the Founders - and Plato - gave us a wonderful system of
government. And what we have now is the fruition of a 227 year long
scheme to subvert that system. In large part by exporting the very
foundation of our success and our economy - our jobs and our
technology.
73 Pete Allen AC5E
In this election season where everything seems to be presented or
interpreted as having partisan purpose we seem to find ourselves
parsing every word. An after-effect, I suppose, of the Clinton-Gore
years when all of we non-lawyers learned about new word games like
"It depends what your definition of is is." and "There is no
controlling legal authority." Sigh.
So that we might address our E-mails, letters, and phone calls to
the correct individuals can you specify precisely whom it is in
this administration you know with certainty to be "highly in favor
of BPL", please?
Generalizations work against us in this campaign to inform the
uninformed and to derail this RFI trainwreck, only specifics are of value.
IMHO, YMMV ...
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Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
West Central Florida
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