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And that is the problem when confusing ‘Global Economy’ with pure ‘outsourcing’, the later of which is what is happening here. It would be different if the good folks on the board at Triumph were looking to satisfy expanded demand in a region they could not supply, i.e., North America – Much like the Japanese did. But that isn’t what’s happening here folks. Sometimes ‘outsourcing’ is a by-product or this Global Economy, just by nature of Geographic’s – but they are not, and need not be one-in-the-same. What’s happening is cheap, underhanded ‘labor pimping’, purely to save a buck. Don’t confuse the two.



First off, the reason Japan started manufacturing in the US of A was to beat the very stiff tarrifs on inport vehicles the government imposed to drive the prices up on them, in an effort to push people into buying American. Japanese companies foud a way to beat the system by staring opperations here. They also brought prosperity back to some failing comunities.

Triumph was having problems meeting demands, and needed a way to bump up production. Most people don't know that Triumph had suspended their demo program for a few months this past year because the demand was beyond the supply they could put out of the Hinkley plant. If wanting to continue growing, and doing so by upping production in another part of the world is wrong, I guess people wouldn't mind getting on a wait list for bikes, and the price being a great deal higher.

Triumph couldn't open a factory in the US unless they staffed it with illegal aliens. At our labor costs, they would have to charge about 13K for a base model America.

Of course, if you and a few hunderd people you know are willing to work for say 6.53 an hour, Triumph may look into opening a plant in the US.

Also, what I'm getting from a few here is you wouldn't have a problem with a Triumph assembled in the USA, but have a problem with one being assembled in Thailand. Being that easily 65% of building a motorcycle falls to the hands of unskilled labor, unskilled Americans are better then unskilled Tahilanders ?

IT's 2007 people............. wake up.

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