Subject: Re: MADE IN USA -- does anybody care?

From: "Roots" <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Feb 1997 00:55:06 GMT

> Todd  wrote:> 
> Isn't Formosa just a little bit south of Taiwan?
> 

Isn't the USA just a little bit south of Canada?

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From: "Jack A. Zucker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 06:53:26 -0500

> Isn't the USA just a little bit south of Canada?

Ha !!!!!!!!!!
That was good. I'm sick and tired of reading about supposedly superior
US products in this newsgroup. I've plenty of equipment made in the US,
Japan, and Taiwan and I can tell you that there's not a whole lot of
difference on equivalently priced products. I've found that on
comparably priced equipment, there just is not that much difference. On
large power tools, it seems that all the manufacturers, (US or
otherwise) expect you to be a metalworker as well as a woodworker. The
exception for me has been the Japanese stuff which while typically more
expensive seems to be much higher quality in general.

All you people bashing Taiwan should remember what Japan did to the US
Auto manufacturing business. In my opinion, based on the declining
quality of many of the US power tool manufacturers, I can easily
envision a similar thing happening with the Taiwanese stuff.

-Jaz

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