Re: Hmmmm,light bulb myth?

Posted by AG in IN on December 16, 2011 at 17:49:43 from (67.236.84.51):

In Reply to: Hmmmm,light bulb myth? posted by James Williams on December 16, 2011 at 10:48:21:

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I'm not entering a political debate. I will say that the bill was passed in December of 2007. It was surely dreamed up before that date. A bill was introduced earlier this year to repeal this, and it didn't get out of the house. Associate any politician or party with any of this you choose. You can look around on the internet and find out who's in bed with who in Washington to see why this bill passed, and why it won't be repealed. I won't fill YT's site with a 40 page book on this, or it'll get deleted anyway.

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Most of these companies and others took some or all of their bulb production elsewhere years ago. It's all gone now, and not coming back unless there is some radical legislation, tariffs on imported goods, or changes in tax code. There's too much big business in bed with politicians to let any of these happen.

There was no incentive to build a innovative new product here, no incentive to retool this production line, no incentive to pay US employees a fair wage, and no incentive to have "Made in USA" on their products when no one else does, so GE shut down their last US bulb production plant. There were plenty more reasons to close it, and few, if any, to keep it open, especially after this law was passed.

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When a company moves production overseas, and whether or not they cheapen their product up in the process (they usually do), they bring in huge profits over what they would have made producing the same product here. They seldom lower the prices of the product to pass some of this savings on to the consumer. Their shareholders are thrilled. Now that a product will be illegal, and alternitive replacements needed, it's another opportunity to cash in.

When it comes to the question of "Where does my ____ come from?" people have their heads lodged too far up their backsides and their eyes and ears full of crap. So long as what they're looking for is on the shelf, they're happy. They care what their dollar buys, not where it goes when it leaves their hand. When prices go up, they grumble and groan, but if the money's in their wallet, they buy it. Suddenly a bunch of jobs are gone, and aren't coming back, wallets are alot emptier, and people are starting to getting the crap out of their eyes and ears.



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Amen. Even most of the politicians that people remember fondly did things while in office that would have got the average American locked up, or even the chair. I'd say as a whole, people are fed up with politics as usual, but are resigned to the fact that a new crook will replace the current one in any election.

AG

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