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Regulators adopt new attitudes toward financing
Excellent recap of what is happening to us! by Bernie

It's Tax Day -- Let's party like we work for GSA!
I consider myself a reasonably smart human being, but no matter how much I read about this government and how f'd up it is no one seams to have the answers. Can anyone tell me what else I can do, as a hard working American who is sick to his stomach, besides vote, because that isn't enough. I know the problem, tell me the answer. My thought is it will take someone with the biggest set of balls known to mankind to clean house. Looking for some answers, and I am all ears by Joseph Bullyan

It's Tax Day -- Let's party like we work for GSA!
And we wonder why our budget is out of control?!!? OMG!!!! We are to blame though - we keep electing the same members to the most exclusive country club in the world! They are exempt from most laws, get everything paid for by the taxpayer and are set for life - while we just keep struggling to pay them for that luxury!Worse, our two presidential candidates will raise over half a BILLION Dollars to convince us to vote for them! Actually worse - we'll contribute to them and elect them!Shame on us ... by Bernie

Australia, Europe, China . . . . pick two!
It would be interesting to know what the Board members that didn't vote yes on going into China thought and are they RV mfg. or suppliers? If any of them are suppliers they must have all their products made there already! by Tony

Australia, Europe, China . . . . pick two!
As a follow-up on this discussion, there was a very interesting article in the Washington Post last week and it was reprinted in the Boston Sunday Globe this past weekend. The article is titled: "China may buy only domestic cars for official use." You can read the article at: http://b.globe.com/GTIu6A Many of the comments at the Post and Globe indicate that there is nothing wrong with a country doing this - and I agree with them. We do the same thing here in America at the federal and state ... by Bob Zagami

Australia, Europe, China . . . . pick two!
As always, Bob has done his homework and presents a great editorial. I just can't see any benefit to having anything to do with The "China" Connection. I can't think of any Industry that has actually "benefited" it's American workers by joining with China.An American purchaser of an RV has multiple choices of types, options and price already! Why add an Asian Product to that mix - that will only hurt American made products - as it always has in the past. High tech products are mass produced and ... by Bernie

Australia, Europe, China . . . . pick two!
Bob, you’re right on!

The Chinese government cannot be trusted and they abuse their people terribly. If an RV manufacture decides to “dance” with a partner in China, it will be the fire dance, and it won’t be China that gets burned!
by Barry Hughes

The Chinese even knock off websites
I don't see a major problem with it.I just type the name then hit Ctrl & Enter and it goes to the dot com.Can not see why I would even type dot com then dot cn. by Wayne

The Chinese even knock off websites
This trick happens in all countries. Not limitied to China. It's cyber siting and tech it is illegal but that doesn't stop anyone from doing it.

If you are building a "brand" you often want to buy every version of your domain. Because even if you can get all of those domains back with the law from the people sitting on them it is just safer to own them all up front if you can.

by Aaron

Australia, Europe, China . . . . pick two!
Point of clarification from Jim this morning, the China Committee vote was unanimous but the Board of Directors vote was not.

Also, the sentence in the third pargraph from the bottom should have read, "We will continue to monitor China, not to prove somebody wrong, but to honestly report the information we get on the abuses we expect to see despite the best laid plans of RVIA." by Bob Zagami

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Feeble Minded Folks at FEMA - You can’t make this stuff up!
By Bob Zagami @ 1:24 AM :: :: 3 Comments ::

How can government workers be this incompetent? A year after filing my request I did receive a letter from FEMA saying that they were still working on my request and did I want to keep the request open. You can probably imagine my response. It was something like “until hell freezes over” I will wait for you (Big Government) to respond to my request. The information was still pertinent at the time because the lawsuits had not yet hit the court systems. I really wanted to write about this topic and defend the manufacturers, but time was working against me.

There is another important element to this story. I have a thorough understanding of what the government had to go through to find the information, scan it, redact confidential information and send the data and images to people making FOIA requests. In my “real world” career in the document imaging industry we sell these systems and we know what it takes to do this work. We sell the hardware, the software, and even do the work if people want to contract with us versus doing it themselves.

We also know that it doesn’t take three and a half years to fulfill these types of requests, regardless of how busy they may be or how much paper they may have to search through.

To make this even more frustrating, when the feeble minded folks at FEMA did finally write to me last month the first line of the letter read; “This is the first interim response to your September 29, 2007 Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).” So after waiting three and a half years, they issue an INTERIM report and it only contains 16 files and 374 pages with the appropriate redactions to protect against the release of information they are not obligated to provide to me.

That is about one days worth of work in the document imaging industry.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:24 AM

Bob, this is just one of the many that I have already heard of FEMA doing this too. FEMA has hide the truth for everyone, my question is did they hide the truth for the U.S. Congress? I think so! FEMA has been doing what FEMA wants to they have been sending their COTARS in to our Manufactures and asking them to build for them. Only about 6 to 8 of the Manufactures are building for FEMA today. So much for the Dealerships protection. These New units will be sold by these couple of Manufactures and sold every two years on to the open Market! As they are sold on open Market they will be Titled for the First Time, and allow Warranty to start. Just like all of the Units from Katrina.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:24 AM

Bob, you're right - this is only one tiny example of the waste built into our government and that only one half of our citizens pay for. The other half don't pay taxes. If these jokers had been employed by a privately owned company, they would have been fired years ago. It truly makes me sick to my stomach to watch it happen every day in this country. Gotta get back to work now so I can pay more taxes that will go toward more waste in the government. ;-)

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:24 AM

FEMA`is a part of the federal government that shoud be abolished. Then, an organization could be formed with knowledgeable and qualified industry people to operate a similar program. What you have now are illiterate non- industry interested un-qualified personell. Is'nt that what our government is all about. Look at what has happened to the FAA-management is garbage.

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