On 1/26/2011 6:49 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 27/01/2011 1:36 AM, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> And you know the really insane thing about it? Most of this crap is made
>> and shipped from places like China, Taiwan, and everyone *but* the US.
>> So you have con artists, or just nuts, selling this stuff, basically
>> untouchable, as long as they put the proper legerdemain on it, and its
>> not even benefiting anyone *here*, but some bozo in another country, who
>> is laughing their asses off at both the buyer, and the seller.
>
> Another way of looking at it is, someone at home is shipping it from
> China, Taiwan etc. to make a profit. But that is the free market for you.
>
My personal feeling is, if a company has more than 50% of its damn 
resources, product *or* employees in some other country, and its not 
*specifically* claiming to be a resaler (which would not have the same 
"rights" as the rest, including being able to muck with politics *at 
all*), it can't claim to be an "American company", no matter where their 
"head office" is located. If we used that logic on something like 
diplomats, foreign dignitaries could claim to be members of bloody 
congress, on the grounds that their embassy is on US land, and they do 
all their work from the embassy office, without ever going back to their 
own country for visits.

But, heh, that's just me...

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