Tsunami and overseas guitar manufacturers?

[Subvamp]

I don't know if anyone has posted this already (been outta the JCF loop due to the flu) but I was wondering if the tsunami had any impact on those plants overseas in Indonesia and India that are cranking out alot of the "lower-end" guitar models for the bigger companies. Any thoughts?

[SEEGERMANY]

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I don't mean to sound hardassed, but the manufacture of guitars or any other item not related to the rebuilding/reconstruction of the affected areas is the least thing on my mind.

[SEEGERMANY]

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P.S. Glad you're feeling better from the flu.

[skidd]

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It is a vaild question. It will take quit awhile to sort itself out.

[lerxstcat]

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Since those factories represent jobs to people
who need them even more now than they did two weeks ago, it is a valid question as regards the economic recovery of a devastated region.
It's especially important because it might be cheaper for the guitar manufacturers to just transfer their orders to Chinese factories rather than spend money rebuilding in India and Indonesia. That would have repercussions on many levels.

[SEEGERMANY]

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We can agree/disagree back and forth, but most of the affected people are not worried at this precise moment about jobs. They are more worried about survival, medical attention, reconstruction, etc. If, and I say if, a Hookie Dookie Hondo factory was hit by the tsunami, I seriously doubt that it's going to get attention before reconstruction of housing, waste treatment and sewage facilities, hospitals, yada yada yada. At some point, yes, it may become a valid question but not as this time.

[skidd]

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We can agree/disagree back and forth, but most of the affected people are not worried at this precise moment about jobs. They are more worried about survival, medical attention, reconstruction, etc. If, and I say if, a Hookie Dookie Hondo factory was hit by the tsunami, I seriously doubt that it's going to get attention before reconstruction of housing, waste treatment and sewage facilities, hospitals, yada yada yada. At some point, yes, it may become a valid question but not as this time.

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Most of the poor people lost everything, and after going though what I went though here in fla. this year, trust me you are thinking about work because work equals money which equals food, houseing etc. Besides the US will rush to the aid of everyone BUT their own.

[Cleveland Metal]

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If, and I say if, a Hookie Dookie Hondo factory was hit by the tsunami, I seriously doubt that it's going to get attention before reconstruction of housing, waste treatment and sewage facilities, hospitals, yada yada yada. At some point, yes, it may become a valid question but not as this time.

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I'd say a Hondo factory would be comparable with a waste treatment or sewage facility...

[lerxstcat]

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We can agree/disagree back and forth, but most of the affected people are not worried at this precise moment about jobs. They are more worried about survival, medical attention, reconstruction, etc. If, and I say if, a Hookie Dookie Hondo factory was hit by the tsunami, I seriously doubt that it's going to get attention before reconstruction of housing, waste treatment and sewage facilities, hospitals, yada yada yada. At some point, yes, it may become a valid question but not as this time.

[/ QUOTE ]What you may not realize is that a big part of people's mental and physical recovery from a whopper like this is some return to normalcy. That Hookie Dookie Hondo factory is work, therefore security and life, to those workers, even if you do laugh at the plywood guitars thety make. It's still rice, and meat maybe once a week, for the workers there. No one but you suggested that guitar factories should be rebuilt before roads, schools, hospitals and sewer treatment plants. That would be ridiculous. It's not blasphemy to discuss the issue though.When Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, thre was so much destruction that the unemploymentrate locally was about 25% to 30%. That didn't really change until they legalized casino gaming in 1990. So for those 21 years, this area was blighted and never really recovered from the hurricane. That wasn't a tsunami, but the storm surge was still a 20-foot high wall of water that swept half a mile inland acros the whole Mississippi coast. The coast area's basically sea level, ad the only thing that stopped the wave was the railroad tracks, built on a embankment, that acted as a levee, otherwise it would've been much worse.We all feel bad about all those people, the living as well as the dead. Some of us have been through something similar enough to understand that horror. It doesn't dishonor them to ask some munane questions about a matterrelated to their area and the forum.

[Cleveland Metal]

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That Hookie Dookie Hondo factory is work, therefore security and life, to those workers, even if you do laugh at the plywood guitars they make.

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Does plywood float?

[lerxstcat]

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It does if you build a boat with it! That's a good question though, anyone got a Hondo they can spare, toss it in the pool and see!

[Mordor]

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And after tsunami,the invasion of the plywood axes! [img]/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]