ORIGINAL: Tired Old Man
ORIGINAL: Tman
Sounds like a good deal. Lots of good deals out there. Servo City recently offered the Futaba Faast 10C transmitter for $369.95 as an example of doing your internet homework looking for good deals. My only problem with buying from overseas vendors is warranty work.
The problem with buying from
any overseas manufacturer is with the export of dollars. Unfortunately just about every American manufacturer found out it's more profitable to use foreign labor and components to escape the laws governing labor and the environment in America. So consumers in their never endine greed just sat back and let the jobs of their friends and neighbors drift overseas because they were too lazy to get involved with politics at home. Want to know why you may not have a job or the one you have pays so bad? You did it to yourself.
Next time you folks look at a shiiping invoice from Hobby King or similar, look at the product values noted on the customs documents. You think American manufacturers are gouging you? When the value of a servo on a Hobby King customes invoice is listed at only $0.18 (that's 18 cents for those numerically challenged) you know you're getting had.
Yes, American dealers make some money on a sale to you. They have to if they want to eat and have a place to live, and to provide that warranty service that all of you insist on having. You do the same when you accept a paycheck. You work to have enough to pay the bils and, hopefully, put some away for a rainy day. That payment of the bills and setting aside a litle is called ''overhead and profit''. Seems it's ok for you to do it but it's not ok for the person you expect to take care of you to do the same.
Yes, the cost of everything
appears to be going up. The operative word in that sentence was ''appears''. In reality the cost of those products is the same or less than they used to be. The problem is the value of our dollar. It has and is going down so manufacturers expect to receive value equal to the sale of their products and increase the number of dollars needed to buy them to offest the decline in dollar value. Gas is not more expensive, our dollar simply isn't worth anything. That's what happens when you go from a production economy to a consumer economy. You import and buy more than you make so you export dollars instead of importing currency. We have one of the weakest currencies in the world, and a large part of the reason is the American consumer. The other part of the reason is the American voter. They didn't bother to learn about anything, didn't vote, and now are paying the piper.
You learn this is a cold, hard fact if and when you ever travel overseas and try to buy something. Ever wonder why it takes more dollars to buy a Euro or Dinar? Wasn't all that long ago it took more Euros and Dinars to buy a dollar. Now it takes 1.5 dollars for a Euro, and up to 3.7 dollars to buy certain Dinar. Even the Australian and Canadian dollars have reached parity with the American dollar, which means none of the three is worth more than about $0.28 on the world market.
I don't know if some of you are simply stupid or just in denial, but the more American businesses you force to close the more you're going to pay later. Nobody works for free.
Do not know how much truth there is to this, I just copied and pasted it from a Email I received. ????
The following are 19 facts about the De-industrialization of America that will blow your mind...
#1 The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001... About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people when they were still in operation.
#2 Dell Inc., one of America’s largest manufacturers of computers, has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an investment of over $100 billion over the next decade.
#3 Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November. Approximately 900 jobs will be lost.
#4 In 2008, 1.2 billion cell phones were sold worldwide. So how many of them were manufactured INSIDE the United States? Zero.
#5 According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million jobs this year alone.
#6 As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago.
#7 The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.
#8 According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.
#9 In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent.
#10 Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately 750 good paying middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Ford's new "global" manufacturing strategy.
#11 As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.
#12 In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services.
#13 The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000.
#14 In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th..
#15 Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.
#16 Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide.
#17 The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States.
#18 One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.
#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.
So how many tens of thousands more factories do we need to lose before we do something about it?
How many millions more Americans are going to become unemployed before we all admit that we have a very, very serious problem on our hands?
How many more trillions of dollars are going to leave the country before we realize that we are losing wealth at a pace that is killing our economy?
How many once great manufacturing cities are going to become rotting war zones like Detroit before we understand that we are committing national economic suicide?
The deindustrialization of America is a national crisis. It needs to be treated like one. Can anyone explain how a de-industrialized America has any kind of viable economic future?
America is in deep, deep trouble folks. It is time to wake up.