Mark S. Holden wrote:

On the bright side, I think products like the Sat 800,
and lower cost chinese portables will help expand the
market for higher end radios.

I think the opposite. They will kill all the competitors with
extremely low pricing. Once the 'communist' Chinese target an
industry, it's doomed. Go to a store like Home Hardware and try to
find a NON Chinese light fixture.

The Chinese state factories are the biggest threat to a free market
place that there is. It's the human equivalent of the Borg's "You WILL
be assimilated"

The politicians here are too easily bought. They're handing over the
keys to the monopolists in return for a few under the table shekels.
You, the citizen can get screwed for all they care, because 'They got
theirs'.




mike