NEW HOLLAND TC40 DASH ELEC. MESS!

MAYOR8020 · Feb 7, 2008

Bob_Young said:
We "should be proud of what we do" here in the USA, but often we are not. In fact, how can we be when so many are taught in school to hate their country of birth...the "good old USA".

As a result we are on the way to becoming a third world nation and the construction practices uncovered by the Mayor bear witness to that fact. If the Mayor made any mistake, it was in giving his countrymen the benefit of the doubt.

While these practices may have slipped by in the China of 20 years ago, today they would bring needed criticism. Unfortunately such criticism has become all too rare in American plants. With management forced to handle labor with kid gloves in the plants where I've worked, inferior practices slowly became the rule rather than the exception.

This doesn't bode well for the Good Old USA.
/rant off
Bob

belive me i love the usa and work and sell alot of products both usa canada
european and chinese. i am not knocking usa @ all . its just that i have to give my very best everyday cause i work w/ contractors and builders and they demand the best all the time. i guess what im sayin is i have pride in usa and dont care for the import scheme but it is very hard to do this
i import lumber nails osb plywood and just about everything else.
some reasons are for quality some to compete w/ the big boxes some cause you cant buy domestic @ any rate i do not knock usa cause i am usa

Bob_Young · Feb 7, 2008

Careful now, Mayor. You can't just come out and say you love your country without hedging a bit. Like James Lileks said:
"Love of country must always be qualified these days, lest anyone think you are unaware of slavery, insufficiently regulated railroad stock offerings, Lester Maddox or the attempt by Philip Morris to conceal the addictive nature of cigarettes."

You seem to be somewhat politically incorrect. Are you sure you're really a mayor?

MAYOR8020 · Feb 9, 2008

Bob_Young said:
Careful now, Mayor. You can't just come out and say you love your country without hedging a bit. Like James Lileks said:
"Love of country must always be qualified these days, lest anyone think you are unaware of slavery, insufficiently regulated railroad stock offerings, Lester Maddox or the attempt by Philip Morris to conceal the addictive nature of cigarettes."

You seem to be somewhat politically incorrect. Are you sure you're really a mayor?

THIS IS RIDICULOUS. YOU DO KNOW THIS. RIGHT!!!!