Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul

Bryan&Colleen,step away from the bus.Steve

Peter...

It's much more fun and easy not to choose... swap both the tranny/engne.

Shaggy will help you gain some engine bay access.

Timmy

...................Karl Marx was a poor judge of human nature. Greed and self-interest along with a willingness to let others carry the load made his utopian model of a socialist workers' heaven a ludicrous absurdity.

I am far from being a republican, the "bather" word was used so as not offend the conservatives on the board. Plus I had a few many cocktails when I posted... :)

I'll gladly wear any name the repubs want to lay on me, tree-hugger, enviro-wacko, elitist, and even socialist.

But, thanks for correcting the quote.

Bryan

...............You make a good point. Still, look at the economic collapse of the socialist countries during the past few decades. I wasn't all our fault. They pretty much did it to themselves. Nobody is trying make a better life for themselves by sneaking into Cuba or North Korea.

Make a list, I always forget when I steal parts and then I go to get in the poor parts car and can't figure out why the lights don't turn on etc.

-- Anna Vancouver Island, BC

Now that is good advice, I've already stolen several fuses. Maybe I'll just hang a little notebook from the bus mirror labeled: STOLEN PARTS and make entries as time goes by.

Thanks,

Bryan

OK, this is a VW newsgroup and I promised myself I wouldn't be sucked into OT emotionally loaded threads (nor create OT emotionally loaded threads) but I do enjoy the exchange of ideas...

So Cuba is interesting, 40 years of American embargo yet Cubans aren't starving, have a high literacy rate, no civil wars unlike so many of their neighbors. A move from Haiti to Cuba would certainly be a better life. We send billions of dollars to China which is no utopia of human rights, but we can't travel to or do business with Cuba. Pure hypocorisy (sp?)

Bryan

....big ass cigars, and greay pressed pork sandwhiches....sheesh what a marrooon.....

lol.

...Gareth ....oh....and as travis would say... Glad I could clear that up for ya...

..................I actually love Cuban cigars which is not a problem except that our friends up in Canada sell them to us stupid Americans for about $200 to $300 for a box of 25 Bolivar Coronas!

............The Cuban food in Miami is probably better than in Cuba.

Oy! Maybe I can make some money on my next trip to Trinidad. They are easy to come by there. So is there some kind of limit on how much I can bring back? Screw that. I'll ship!

"Bryan and Colleen Wooten" wrote

I did exactly that when I transferred the engine from my parts car into my daily driver. Whenever I get around to putting the original engine back in I want to be able to put as much original stuff back on it as possible.

-- Scott

...................US Customs will confiscate them.

I had a '68 bus, and bought a '72 Super. First it was the motor, and then after a few bits, I got rid of the bus. I MISS IT TERRIBLY! A bus (even a latter version) is ALWAYS preferable to a '72 Super....all to say - STOP and take care of the bus! :+) paul

"pmbedard" wrote

Hey! I resemble that remark. :-) .... although I would give my left ... um ... uh, arm to have a double cab. I saw a sweet bay window DC at our local mall the other day. That's a pretty rare sight around here.

-- Scott

From: "Tim Rogers"

Of course, but that's not part of China's plan. Their plan is to eventually make the equipment there, and they will, and/or companies like Cat will move their manufacturing to China and, due in part to China's policy, be made only by Chinese. Gone is the American worker.

NAFTA? Remember that promise? Well, many USA companies that moved their manufacturing to South America are bailing out of there to have their stuff made in China. The point is that there is no end to the pursuit of profits at any cost in principle and to our future workers.

Why is it that way? Well, the Chinese (and Japanese) have an entirely different strategy to profitable success: they don't have to do any stupid quarterly reports and thereby diminish their efforts under the will of short-sighted, remote-control stock holders. Quarterly reports are the death of reasonable planning. The Japanese held prescedent in the concept of long-term strategies: loose money for a while while making inroads into another economy. It's economic war, bubba, and the US workers are the dying soldiers. It is fair to mention that the workers in Japan suffer, too. But the Chinese citizen sees nothing but the up-direction; things can't be worse for them so you could piss on 'em and they would think its raining. And thrills US manufacturers. Remember the fundamental principal of the lowest kind of Capitalism: the exploitation of a large, cheap resource - in this case people. Higher Capitalistic principles are just too friggin abstract and slow for the American stockholder.

"Buy from Walmart! A billion Chinese Communists depend upon you!"

.........................International trade policies are set by national governments, not by individuals. Not just here in the USA but throughout the world! Hypocrisy is a good label I suppose for people like me. If it's Ok for you to throw around that kind of talk, maybe we should agree that I'm a self-serving hypocrite and then leave it at that. Cuban-Americans have a legitimate right to express their concerns about the despotic government in Cuba. You have the right to disagree with those concerns. There other concerns about Fidel's regime that go beyond what they or you want. This is a long standing situation that will only be resolved after Castro is dead. He confiscated millions of dollars worth of American property forty years ago and has no means for coming up with any significant amount of compensation today and would lose what little historical relevance is left to him if he even tried. We've exercised our power to influence the forms of government in that region for a long time now, most recently in Haiti, Grenada, Panama, Nicauragua and El Salvador. Why should we turn our backs on what goes on in Cuba after all of that? Eventually there will be a more democratic government there, it's just a matter of time.

..........................What would Cuba use to pay for those agricultural products? Sugar & cigars? They don't have any money. A lot of our farmers(agri-business corporations actually) are already getting government subsidies and artificial price supports. Would you have us subsidize their imports and investments in Cuba? Tyson Foods would love that one. They could close all of those less profitable operations that they've been running in the states. After loading up on 'made in China' plastic dinnerware at Walmart, you could push your cart over to their grocery section and buy 'grown in Cuba' frozen Chicken breasts that cost less than the ones that used to be produced in Arkansas even though it was American subsidies and loan guarantees that bankrolled those 'lucrative' trade opportunities in that bankrupt little country that's so conveniently located only 90 miles south of Key West.

..........Oh yeah........this is supposed to be about "right and wrong".........forgive my hypocrisy