carter fuel pump made in korea?
I shouldn't, I shouldn't, I shouldn't, but here we go...
Yeah, why do we do it? It's like sticking a hand down a running garbage disposal.
It doesn't matter if Dan is from Canada or Bangledesh (?). We only have one world to live in.
RIGHT. Which is why it's such a sham for us to be pretending to have stopped pollution and worker exploitation and such when all we've done is outsourced it.
As far as overseas production goes, most of this stuff is made to the U.S. based corporations designs and specs. Quality control is still the responsibility of the company outsourcing the part.
Eeyeahhhh...I agree with you in principle, but in practice this doesn't end the conversation. I have worked as a product development manager, and while it is possible to get good quality out of places like China and India, it is not yet possible without constant and very vigilant, intensive Western babysitting. Without it, specs get ignored and you get shipments of (product)-shaped toys. Only a tiny fraction of the companies in those countries making whatever kind of widget you want made are even slightly capable of following a spec consistently, and even those companies will often say "Yes, yes, no problem" to absolutely anything asked of them, even if it is a physical impossibility. Not an exaggeration, that; one of my standard winnowing-out practices when I had to source something from India or China was to send candidate companies a physically impossible specification. Most companies said "Yes, yes, no problem, we can make for you, hundred percent quality, no problem." Only those few companies who said "We have some concerns about your specification" made it into my candidate pool. So that's number one. Number two, much of what Western companies do in the way of "quality control" is a pathetic joke of one kind or another. That's another (long) post for another time.
Harley sniveled loud and hard to the Feds when the Japanese started importing cruiser motorcycles to the states.
Yeah, the same Harley-Davidson who like to thump their AMERICAN!!!!!! chest...except they buy headlights from a Japanese company and taillights from a Korean company and virtually all their lifestyle accessories (boots, clothing, ash trays, etc.) are Chinese. Buncha damn hypocrites (I had a first-row seat for this hypocrisy not long ago; the company I worked for was a big HD supplier.)
I'm curious, if the Chinese produce nothing but garbage, why are we so concerned about their military?
Look at their population versus ours. In a war of attrition, we lose. Also, they don't need to use their military on us. We are actively helping them destroy us via much more devastating means: their ownership of the American economy.