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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 ?
I don't have a problem with Triumph. I have a problem with outsourcing and the effect it has on the GLOBAL freakin ecomomy. I have nothing against Thais. I just believe that moving operations to a region or nation in which there is little or no market has a resulting detrimental affect on national (any nation) trade deficits. And I have nothing against someone, yes even outsourced labor, of getting ahead. But, I also believe ones progress should not be at the expense of anothers. The primary industrial nations are fast becoming the place where the only available work is in the service industry - ecomomies can't survive that way and standards of living of the working stiff is the first to suffer. It didn't start with Triumph, or the big three, the steel industry, or the textile industry. It started with those ****** rubber shower shoes immediately after WWII and has escalated ever since. And each of the aforementiond has either withered or died in the aftermath. Keep that in mind each trip you make to Wal-Mart.
Last edited by pipedr; 03/10/2007 11:57 PM.
