|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Doug Henwood
||
|| Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
||
|| >In a free market world, the US could not survive; it is simply not
|| >competitive.
||
|| Who designed - and probably manufactured - the chips inside the
|| computer you typed that on?
||
|| Doug
||
CPU: US Chipset: designed & manufactured in Taiwan Memory: designed & manufactured in S. Korea Monitor: designed & manufactured in S. Korea Video card: designed in Germany(ELSA), certainly not made in US Video capture card: Canada (Matrox) Hard disks: Japan DVD-ROM: Japan CD-R: Japan
Software: 90% US
I wrote a while back about this. I hardly buy any US products except software anymore. But I pay for a lot of US products and services whether I want to or not: US arms, energy bills artificially inflated by US firms, rising oil prices due to dollar denomination, etc.
Hakki