Posted on 03/30/2016 5:27:05 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
Oh, please! The government handed them a mountain of cash on a silver platter as a reward for horrible management. AMF ran that business into the ground.
I know I don’t need to point it out, but it’s pretty obvious you don’t know squat about Reagan. But that’s really not surprising when considering your enthusiasm for big government.
Where I was building homes at the time, coastal Carolina, the quality of the lumber there was far less than that out of Canada. There was a fair bit of southern yellow in the yards; concrete like and no where near the quality of Canadian white. Generally speaking, Canadian lumber companies have better selection and are able to harvest older straighter lumber.
Furthermore, in a free country shouldn’t I be able to buy what I want from where I want?
That's the one. A nice Black Shadow sells for just around 100 large these days.
But of course it's well worth it for the experience of riding 120+ mph on skinny 1950-width tires (oops....tyres) and hockey puck sized brakes.
I’ll take the Electric Lightning, please.
I've only heard about it from those lucky enough to have experienced one. The reviews were exactly what you'd expect.
Like you said about the lotto......
Then look up what happened to Harley after that, and see exactly what’s wrong with protectionism. Their quality went in the toilet, they got bought by AMF, their quality got even worse, they by and large became an apparel company making more money on logod merch than the bikes. That was the era of the joke “what’s the same about a
Harley and a dog? They both love riding in the back of pickups.” The tariff gave Harley the freedom to be poorly run. Eventually they lost enough market share where they had to take the business seriously. But the tariff really wasn’t a good plan, and didn’t really rescue them, because it was their own decisions that were killing them in the first place.
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