MS> throwing out when it gets moldy.  But I can help but hope that
 MS> some good is  waiting, that Made in the USA will be a thing of
 MS> pride again even in Mexico or  where ever.  Please don't bite my
 MS> head off if you think I'm wrong.  I've been  wrong before and
 MS> lived. MegS

It's fascinating to see how certain US industries have bounced back
against foreign competition.  Automobiles are a prime example.  Five
years ago the Japanese companies were walking all over Ford, GM and
Chrysler.  Now the big three are trouncing the Japanese.

Another example: Atari is introducing a new game machine called the
Jaguar.  Sega and Nintendo practically own the video game market
today with their 16-bit machines, but here is Atari bringing out a
64-bit game console two years before Nintendo's is scheduled to reach
consumers.  And there's irony; to manufacture the Jaguar, Atari sent
solicitations to Hong Kong and all the usual places.  They were
surprised when the best bid came back from IBM in Charlotte!

However, many other US industries have not fared so well.  It's
frustrating to think how much better our companies could compete if
we lifted the outrageous burden of taxes and regulations from them.

A good friend of mine delivers welding supplies.  He explained what
he had to go through for the THREE licenses he needs to drive the
delivery truck.  I could hardly believe it.  Then he showed me the
safety rule books he is supposed to follow when carrying gas
cylinders, and the forms he must fill out for every cylinder on his
truck.  I could hardly believe it.  Then he explained that he had to
become a licensed drug dealer -- because oxygen is a prescription
item! 

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