From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:49:34 -0400, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:28:20 -0400, Adam 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:03:20 -0400, Adam Flinton
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Geo wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Adam"
 wrote in message
>>>>>> news:42d7c379$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It has everything to do with it, right now
china couldn't do
>>>>>>>> anything
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  that
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> would damage the US economy, they are far
too invested and far too
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  dependent
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> upon our economy. The more the worlds
economies get intertwined
>>>>>>>> like
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  this
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> the less likely we are to get into wars
because of the effects
>>>>>>>> it   would
>>>>>>>> have.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If only that were true. WW1 was a fight over
economic power &
>>>>>>> friction.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   We didn't have anything near todays level of economic
>>>>>> integration   back in
>>>>>> the early 1900's. Just look at the auto industry today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes we did. True the US was smaller economically &
vastly more
>>>>> insular  but ....
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>>   No we didn't.  My last car has a Japanese nameplate and was built
>>>> in  the  US with parts from the Americas, Europe and Asia (not just
>>>> Japan).  Taking  junked cars apart with a flashlight and a
>>>> magnifying  glass is fascinating  nowadays.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In the UK we did with knobs on. Like I say you lot were possibly
>>> insular  & on the periphery of world trade much like the
PRC or India
>>> used to be.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>   There is no way US or European cars were built with parts from the
>> geographic spread they are now.
>>
>
> Possibly because there were very few cars. Steam engines though were
> assembled from parts made all over. My Grandfather's steamship on Lake
> malawi was made in various bits of the world & then pulled over land in
> pieces to the lake. The engines for instance were made in Glasgow.
>
> Adam

There is no way those steam engines included components from Thailand and Vietnam.

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Gary Wiltshire

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