Comments on the Maytag buyout by Whirlpool?

[rurallib]

This administration will never stop any merger. It would be a good time for GM, Ford and Chrysler to merge.
I think we can be assured that most Maytag operations will be leaving Iowa soon enough, no matter what the corporate mouths say.

[Suich]

1. I bought an Amana washer and dryer a few years ago.

One of the reasons was because Amana was a smaller company. A couple of months later, it was bought out by Maytag. Now Maytag gets swallowed by Whirlpool! This is from Maytag's web site: http://www.maytag.com/mths/our_company/default.jsp?partner=none

Scary stuff, huh? It's all one huge corporation!

:hi:

[Bluzmann57]

2. Maytag can kiss my ass

They moved about 1600 real good jobs out of Galesburg, IL to Mexico for one thing and one thing only; to save on labor costs. And to add insult to injury, the plant in Mexico is clearly visible from Brownsville, Texas according to someone who lives down there. And according to a local tv station which did a special report on it last year. I will never ever buy any Maytag appliance again for that reason.

[rurallib]

3. Amen - saw that show

Maytag was once a great company that stood for quality. Now, thanks in no small part to consultants, they are a piece of another company. After watching that show, I'd be hard pressed ever to buy Maytag again.

[progressoid]

4. We're starting to run out of decent companies to buy from...

Lets see, the last TV made in America was in the 80's?

[Debi]

5. One word - MONOPOLY. n/t

[CornField]

6. The vicious circle continues & expands

Watch it go round and round...

Consumers with thinning wallets want the lowest prices possible.

Retailers pressure manufacturers to cut corners in order to offer their goods at lower prices.

Manufacturers, wanting retailers to sell their merchandise, cut costs by outsourcing, layoffs, using questionable parts/specs.

The merchandise is purchased, but being of low quality, quickly breaks or is ineffective as to its purpose.

...

Consumers with thinning wallets want the lowest prices possible.

Retailers pressure manufacturers to cut corners in order to offer their goods at lower prices.

Manufacturers, wanting retailers to sell their merchandise, cut costs by outsourcing, layoffs, using questionable parts/specs.

The merchandise is purchased, but being of low quality, quickly breaks or is ineffective as to its purpose.

...

If America (or more aptly, Americans) are going to survive, we need to stop the vicious circle. The complication is that the circle has already expanded so much that it is difficult to work outside of it. For instance, I've yet to find a bicycle tire which was made in the USA.

What makes matters even worse is that companies operating on the US Commonwealth island of Saipan and other Northern Mariana Islands are allowed by law to label their goods as "Made in the USA." That is, you could have a Chinese owned factory, using 100% Chinese materials and parts, by Chinese citizen workers, 800 miles from mainland China in Saipan labeling its goods as "Made in the USA."

I could probably write for hours on Saipan/CNMI (i.e., Abramoff, Delay, forced abortion, forced drugging, the model for Bush's guest worker program, sweatshops, racism, neoptism) but it would be easier just to link: http://www.saipansucks.com