XPost: soc.culture.russian, soc.culture.french, soc.culture.europe
XPost: soc.culture.german
From: jbrothe@hotmail.com

"True American Hero"  wrote in message
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>
> "Jan Brothe"  wrote in message
> news:YTDzd.34946$uM5.19099@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> >
> > "True American Hero"  wrote in message
> > news:dpmzd.10256$iT5.2504@fe11.lga...
> >> >
> >> > The Euro is currently about 12% over parity, that is to say at its
> >> > introduction it was at $1.17, so the rise you see is completely
> >> > relative. Furthermore you do not take into account the costs of
> >> > changing
> >> > currencies, nor the cost of parts which, if Boeing was chosen, would
> >> > have to be paid for in fluctuating dollars as would any necessary
> >> > technical assistance and training etc. I don't think you'd make a
very
> >> > good businessman.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Technical assistance and training are a very small percentage of the
> > overall
> >> purchase.
> >> But yes, better to pay a 35% surcharge for the benefit of making the
> >> purchase in stagnant Euros!
> >
> > When it comes to huge transactions like airplanes, especially where
> > all the perks are thrown in the currency exchange has small bearing
> > on the sell. What's more important are the longterm costs, technology,
> > service, i.e. Atleast that's what holds true in expensive Telco
> > infrastructure
> > sales.
> >
>
> If you buy a 7E7 from Boeing, they throw in a free cell phone. So telco
> costs are not a problem.

I like that I hope long distance is included :) BTW I wish US the best,
I just think that at this time its in a ditch which I hope it gets out of,
and BTW US isn't the only problem in todays global economy.

- JB.

>
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So says the great economist. France doesn't have a deficit of 500 US
> >> > billion dollars and a plummeting currency that no one wants any more.
> >> > Do
> >> > you know the fable about the tortoise and the hare?
> >> >
> >>
> >> France will exceed the EU budget deficit again in 2005, just as in 2004
> > but
> >> the EU will look the other way...applying one standard to the smaller
EU
> >> members and an altogether different standard for France and Germany.
> >
> > Deficits here and there are not too bad what's worse is the mounting
> > debt that US needs to service. The so far housing engine may bust if
> > if US will need to radically raise the interest rates, which may spell
> > doom.
> >
> >>
> >> France will eeek out 1 or 2% growth for 2004 but inflation will exceed
> > that
> >> growth. End result: for those few Frenchmen that actually do work for a
> >> living, they will have less real buying power in 2005.
> >>
> >> The budget deficit is great for the US. Europe must fund it or their
> >> economies will collapse. A Europe with no USA to export
to...hah-hah-hah!
> >
> > Germany has seen export increases by 10% and only 1/10 of those
> > exports are to US. The US is constantly becoming a smaller fish
> > in a larger pond. Besides there are other growing world markets
> > especially Asia. Motorola has invested more in China then anywhere
> > else in the world. The US needs to wakeup, curb in its excessive
> > waste of money on useless military projects. BTW why isn't the
> > ECB all that worried about the rising Euro because (i) their energy
> > is cheap (ii) the Euro is entrenching itself into world bank reserves.
> > I don't care what anyone tells me there is no better substitute for a
> > powerful currentcy, as the British pound fell so did Englands dominance.
> > Additonally I'd rather have small growth then growth at the expense
> > of debt, especially if more $ can't be printed as in the past.
> >
> >>
> >> French wines are 15% more than last year but USA and Aussie wines are
> >> already outselling them. The dimwitted French over-planted too.
> >>
> >> I see all the Euros are coming to the US on shopping sprees now. Cheap
> >> prices and they escape the suffocating European taxes! So Johnny-boy,
> >> when
> >> ya comin' to the USA to stock up on Mc Donalds cheeseburgers????
> >
> > That's good, but it will take decades to affect the trade deficit.
> > And with Mr. Bush in power things aren't about to get better.
> >
> > I think what's most worrisome are US markets, who wants to invest in
> > a falling currency. Also its true that an America who's consumers are
> > hurting will hurt the whole world, there need to be other economic
> > engines besides US. The painful reality though is that Americans
compared
> > to Europeans have such  a lower standard of living or security I should
> > say, and meanwhile the US government continues to reach for the stars,
> > instead of necessities.
> >
> > - JB
> >
> >>
> >> >>> On paper the 350 looks better than the 7E7.  Moreover, Airbus has
> >> >>> configurated their planes rationally so that a pilot trained
> >> >>> to fly one model and be trained easily to fly an upgraded model.
> >> >>
> >> >> The practical matter is that pilots don't switch aircraft so this
> >> >> means little.
> >> >
> >> > Pilots don't have the slightest choice in the matter, their bosses
buy
> >> > the planes and they learn to fly them. You'd be pretty crap in the
> >> > personnel section too it seems to me.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yep...and their bosses prefer to keep then *IN* the cockpit making
money
> >> instead of training them.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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