My take on the ARF/ARC issue

[Ty Marcucci]

 

[john e. holliday]

Amen,  thanks Ty,  DOC Holliday

[Keith Spriggs]

the Eli Whitney came up with the Cotton Engine (gin) and sped up the making of cotton cloth, and thus store bought clothes. 

Wasn't this the guy that said, "Keep your cotton pickin hands off my gin"

[Bill Gruby]

  This is gonna open up a can of worms but Bob Storick said it once and I am gonna repeat it again.

  The key word is HERE. When the articles Ty is referring to were written the prefabricated kits etc. were made in the good old USA. No such thing as outsourcing. Today they are made anywhere but in the good old USA (cottage industries noted here). I am still wondering when we are going to wake up on this issue. Buy American has taken on a whole new meaning. God Bless those who still manufacture HERE IN THE USA. Now there's a dollars worth.

  "Billy G"   

  Please allow me ten minutes to put on my flame suit. Thank-You.

[john e. holliday]

It would be great if we could make the ARF/ARC's here in the states.  But, who are we going to get to work for 50 cents an hour.  The good old labor market is pricing itself out of work.  The exemption is the agricultural workers who work for almost half of minimum wage.  My old company I retired from is probably going on strike to try and keep what we fought for in the past.  DOC Holliday

[Clancy Arnold]

Ty, Bill, Doc & Keith

I am doing my part.  I buy all of the parts that go into my U/Tronics units from 3 electronics stores here in Indianapolis, In.  I assemble and test them in my garage in Indy.  I have no control over where the parts are made but the labor is pure USA.

About the $.50 per hour, you mean I am supposed to get paid for my time!!!  LOL.

Clancy

[Joejust]

Ah Yes!  The American consumer is one that comes home driving an Oriental made car after waching an Italian/Spanish/Great Britian movie and sits down at their imported desk and writes with a Japanese pen on  fine Irish linen paper to their elected representative in Foggy Botom (an actual place in WA,DC) demanding "buy American legislation"!

I first heard this little dilly back in the late 50's. 50 years later it is still true.  Perhaps the answer might be in investiagating prisons as a source of cheap labor for ARF's.  When I was an outside sponser for the "Clipped Wings" model club in the Walla Walla prison I was convinced that handled correctly prison labor could be a win win situation. Alas and aleck there was never an idea like the above that ever got past the political power of volitile unions, "let em sit and rot" voters and manufacturing entities. Thus everyone became a looser.

I welcome ARF's in  our hobby by the way. They fill a needed gap in the control line hobby. After having been involved in the development, manufacturer and sales of a series of ARF's I still believe it could be don e in this Country if and of course the word "if" is still the biggest word in our vocabulary, if cheap labor were available.

Nuff said!

Joe Just

[don Burke]

Carroll Shelby uses or used to use NEVADA prison labor in producing his continuation Cobras.  Worked OK as far as I know.