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Buying and Selling
On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 10:20:11 AM UTC-4, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 9:34:01 PM UTC-7, Ralph Barone wrote: jbeattie wrote: Also, I'm not following. Is Trek good or bad? You do know that they are now operating company stores, directly employing (and paying benefits, including 401ks) to many home-grown Americans? They also employ plenty of workers at company headquarters and elsewhere and make domestic profits. You buy Colnagos, a company with no US headquarters or manufacturing -- and in fact, its high end product is made in Italy -- a socialist country that was aligned with the Nazis at the outbreak of WWII. Do you hate America? Are you a Nazi sympathizer? Do you prefer bicycles made in a socialist country? Why don't you own American bikes? I do -- plus a Canadian one, which is like America with a health plan. -- Jay Beattie. Wow Jay! You've got a CCM? Or was it a SuperCycle? Norco -- a Canadian company. The frame is made in Taiwan by honorary Canadians. They even have a hockey team. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7nepg5W0AAZNEu.jpg Eh? I actually laughed out loud at that. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO |
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