Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Foreign owned aviation companies

Well I am not sure I completely agree.

1) The workforce in Asia is not as incompetent generally as you may think. That may have been true 20 years ago.

2) I am originally from Asia, an immigrant to the US and I definitely would like more manufacturing here for sure but American workforce I can assure is not "so much more highly competent" compared to others and it definitely costs more. No doubt about that. Our younger generation does not possess (in general) the skills of those guys who used to be skilled at making things. They all are great at playing video games but that doesn't quite cut it when I want them to bend sheet metal and use a cnc lathe. Also, I can tell you just growing up in Asia, that the worker there is "more hungry". As a result they work harder in general. That's just how it is right this moment. Having said all that, I would like nothing better than Americans show discipline and buy more American made items. The usual drivel of "that's the American way" that I have heard in the US since I moved here in 1989 ... (you won't here that anywhere else in the world btw) ... and how has that way been been working out for ya?? That's all I got to say.

3) Cessna may have reasons beyond labor costs etc. C162 may be a way for them to get foothold in China which is slowly but surely opening up its skies and in the next 5 to 10 years will be a viable aviation market.

4) In the end business is about the bottom line and opening and growing markets when it goes public and has to answer to shareholders (not private). Besides Cessna and Continental, Cirrus is majority owned by a company that is basically middle-eastern. Those were the investors interested in investing in an American company and that's a shame. Do you think those investors and majority shareholders in UAE care about remaining in the US. I can guarantee you they don't.

Abid

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, b d <gpabruce@...> wrote:
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> Do you know why they did it? It seems like they have everything a business
> could want for right here. Low taxes, competent workforce, wealthy consumers
> . . . . why would they leave all that for China? I'm just curious if anyone
> has any opinions?
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> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Lyle Cox <LyleCox@...>wrote:
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> > Well..my issue is that Cessna and Continental were as American as you
> > could get. I have no issues with foreign countries building and selling
> > foreign goods.....I just hate to see American companies that were the
> > pillars of an industry go this direction.
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