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I understood it but just didn't agree. I'm suprised that an attorney didn't pick up on that!!!!!!! Actually, no I'm not.
Let me guess, you have ZERO patents. Try inventing something useful, Mr. Conservative rather than always stealing from others.
This coming from an ATTORNEY!!!!!!!!!!! Funny stuff! Take your own advice!
Well, just to set the record, I have 4 patents, that's why I am on here talking to boobs like you.
Did you develop an automatic ambulance chaser? Most patents don't go anywhere with respect to product development. Feel free to talk to your own boobs.
ROFLMAO!!! Talk, talk, talk. "Polly want a cracker" Actually, I have an alliance with a Chinese manufacturer who makes my products. Also, please note, I am not a Personal Injury or Tort Attorney. Of course, I doubt that you would understand that or even know the difference.
Yeah, you're a patent attorney which basically means, if you're like any of the ones I know, is that you are a walking brain with hands. You guys are just "different."
I'll take that as a complement.
awesome! one of those castigating the conservatives (you know those bad guys that sent all our manufacturing overseas) has an "alliance with a Chinese manufacturer".
Guess I'll be unlikely to ever buy anything you're selling -- I read where things are manufactured and do my best to avoid Chinese goods.
You know, if you're not part of the solution....
How many of you complaining about how few opportunities there are go out of your way to try to buy American?
I buy all my jeans and other things from this website:
http://www.allamericanclothing.com/
Like you said, if you're not part of the solution...
Let me explain to you how this actually works, because it is quite obvious that you don't have a clue. New inventions from independent inventors need to use Chinese manufacturers in order to get their products on the market; otherwise, they will just fail like 98% of the patents. If you would do just a little bit of research, you should know that American manufacturers will not take on new inventions from independent inventors unless there is a proven track record of sales. Once that is established, then most independent inventors simply license or sell their patents to American manufacturers and their products are then made in the U.S. Hopefully, you have learned just a little bit from this.
This conversation is interesting. Amazed and DropKick are both free market conservatives and they have a problem with you finding both a manufacturer and a market for your products, which allow you to create wealth for yourself, which is the essence of free market capitalism.
Why, amazed, is there are problem with manufacturing things in China at the cheapest price? It's a free market, yes? Is that not the way things should be? Adam Smith said that people working in their own self interest is what drives the free market economy and produces wealth. If that's the case, you should applaud saneman's efforts not denigrate them.
As people advocating the conservative ideal of self interest and personal responsibility, saneman should be a model of that behavior to you.
Isn't it interesting that many of the people doing the best job of competing in the global free market economy are liberals? I think so.
Well, I have been in the business for over 20 years, and trust me, I have tried and tried to get people's inventions and also mine on the market by contacting American manufacturers to have them make and sell the products, but except for a very, very few, the American manufacturers were not willing to accommodate any of them without a proven track record of sales. Do I intend to continue to get my products made in China, absolutely not. It is an extremely huge headache. Let me add one more thing. Even though you may be getting certain products made in America, I can guarantee that if they are using a mold, that mold was made in China.
My point was that free market capitalists shouldn't care where you get your product manufactured. If Chinese producers can produce it cheaper than American producers then, in a free market, the American producers will have to cut the price of production to compete or lose business. That's free market economics 101.
But, the people you hear complaining loudest about it (except for the anti-globalization crowd) are the same people espousing free market economics. It's hypocritical.
Molds are still being made in America. I deal with American moldmakers everyday.
And I deal with plastic manufacturers most every day. A mold in the U.S. costs 10 times than that of a mold in China.
I agree that they cost a lot more but not 10 times after figuring all of your logistical costs. You need to let me teach you some tricks of the trade. Your original statement was that all molds were now made in China.
you have gotten it into your head (and will not be dissuaded) of the nastiest, most selfish definition of conservatism you could come up with. You are convinced (at least by what you post) that conservatives are only about the money. This is SO not true.
Conservatism is about conserving. Conserving resources, conserving the environment, conserving energy, conserving gov't power.
We are accused of being totally for ourselves and everyone else be damned. That is also not true. We are just as compassionate and willing to help as your average liberal, but the method and manner that we believe provides the most help with the least hurt differs. Handing out welfare checks has generated fourth and fifth generation welfare families. That is not helping people; that is enslaving them.
Insisting that certain classes of people -- blacks, latinos, women, etc., cannot possibly compete with white men unless we lower the bar, doesn't elevate them -- it makes every one of their accomplishments suspect.
And sending jobs overseas doesn't conserve anything about the US, but businesses MUST make money. If they can't sell their goods, they can't stay in business. If no one in your market has a job, they are unlikely to purchase your product. There is also something to be said for patriotism.
To say nothing of the fact that many (not all) of those screaming the loudest about the outsourcing of jobs overseas, and laying it all at the feet of the evil republicans, NEVER, EVER look at the label to see where what they are buying is manufactured. If people insisted on domestically produced goods (as people in some countries do), it would do the US companies no good to outsource because they still wouldn't be selling.
But, hey, we gotta save that buck..
To be fair, you haven't tried to dissuade me.
You find me a fifth generation welfare recipient and we'll talk. Heck, find me a fourth generation welfare recipient.
hint: Welfare didn't begin at all as a government run system until during the Great Depression. Considering that a generation is between 20 and 25 years you'd have a heck of a time finding a fifth or even a fourth generation welfare recipient.