Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!ubc-ean!ubc-cs!ludemann From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps. -- Buy Local. Message-ID: <1232@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 02:28:11 EDT Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1232 Posted: Fri Aug 23 02:28:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 06:23:20 EDT References: <1229@utcsri.UUCP> <1188@mnetor.UUCP> <5770@utzoo.UUCP> <16066@watmath.UUCP> <5864@utzoo.UUCP> <763@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 17 In article <763@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes: > Gee Henry, you mean you don't mind if more people buy Ladas >at the cost of shutting down Chrysler? They're cheaper, and genuinely >so. Ironically, they are the product of 'nationalization gone mad'. >Price to the consumer isn't always the only consideration, even when >compared to the value of the immediate product. Didn't buy a Lada. Didn't buy a Chrylser. Bought a Honda. Much better car, even at the inflated prices caused by car quotas. Result of a company getting off its ass and competing in the real world instead of running whining to Ottawa for protection every time things get tough. (I was 15 before I found out that "damned Easterners" was two words.) -- ludemann@ubc-cs.uucp (ubc-vision!ubc-cs!ludemann) ludemann@cs.ubc.cdn ludemann@ubc.csnet (ludemann%ubc.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA)