Re: Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

SoCalMike wrote:
> > Nope. Bob can see the factory that makes the Pentium Processors from his
> > front window.  They are made right here in the USA.
>
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> and the other 95% of his windoze box? china, singapore, malaysia


You don't know much about either computers or economics do you.

Out of a $750 computer $150 goes to Microsoft for software, leaving $600 
for hardware.

Out of $600, about $200 goes for the Pentium processor made in the USA, 
depending on which one you get.

Another $150 or so goes to the small business computer shop down the 
street that assembled Bob's computer (no it wasn't "made" in china).

That leaves only $250 or 1/3 for all the imported components.  But the 
imported component prices include the cost of American distributors, 
truckers, wholesalers, import brokers, freight loaders, etc.  There are 
also license fees, American corporate overhead, and a bunch of other 
costs that stay in the USA or return to the USA.

When all is accounted for, Bob's "windoze box" is about 90 to 95% 
American.  Those Chinese earning 15 cents per hour put in most of the 
labor to make components like disk drives, boxes, etc., but don't cost 
very much.

BTW:  For those anti-Bush Dems in the crowd, several corporations are 
taking advantage of Bush's tax cuts to "repatriate" billions of dollars 
earned overseas.  HP, for example, announced they were bringing home 
about $2 billion.

And it works the other way too of course.  The Chinese have to buy their 
Intel processors from the USA, software from Microsoft, and switching 
from Lucent for their phone and network systems, etc.

Bob