Comments on: The Austrian Delusion http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/the-austrian-delusion Real News for Real Vermonters Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:59:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Worldtraveler http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/the-austrian-delusion/comment-page-1#comment-756 Worldtraveler Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:17:37 +0000 http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/?p=1816#comment-756 Although I concur with your criticism of members of the Vermont press, as well as politicians, who quickly arrive at unfounded conclusions about the meaning behind Burton's plans to move manufacturing of snowboards abroad. However, the rest of your argument is baseless as you have the wrong country. It is not Austria when snowbaords will be manufactured. Manufacturing will take place in a new facility that Burton is currently building in China. As you state: "maybe reporters should ask questions"! Wordltraveler Although I concur with your criticism of members of the Vermont press, as well as politicians, who quickly arrive at unfounded conclusions about the meaning behind Burton’s plans to move manufacturing of snowboards abroad. However, the rest of your argument is baseless as you have the wrong country. It is not Austria when snowbaords will be manufactured. Manufacturing will take place in a new facility that Burton is currently building in China.

As you state: “maybe reporters should ask questions”!

Wordltraveler

]]> By: Bruce http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/the-austrian-delusion/comment-page-1#comment-748 Bruce Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:11:29 +0000 http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/?p=1816#comment-748 Much of the cacophony produced by those who claim that the Burton decision is one more piece of "evidence" that Vermont is a terrible place to do business seems to exemplify the so-called "rooster syndrome": Namely, the rooster crowed and the sun came up; therefore, the rooster's crowing caused the sun to come up. This is an instance of the logical fallacy described by the Latin phrase "post hoc ergo propter hoc." Burton shifted its manufacturing; therefore, Vermont's allegedly poor business environment caused it. From what I read, Burton has also been manufacturing in China, which has a considerably less humane approach to workers than does Austria. See, for instance, Edward Burtynsky's film Manufactured Landscapes, which visually documents some of the harsh realities of China's new economy. Reading some of the criticisms emanating from the predictable critics, it is not hard to conclude that they would have Vermont move less toward an Austrian socio/political economy and more toward a Chinese system. Vermont has seen an ebb and flow of manufacturing for years. Long before IBM came here, Springfield was known far and wide as Precision Valley, a world-center of machine tool manufacturing. Springfield now is a hollow shell of what it once was, and the reasons for its demise as Vermont's manufacturing Goliath are rooted in causes other than the bumper sticker complaints about our present business environment. Much of the cacophony produced by those who claim that the Burton decision is one more piece of “evidence” that Vermont is a terrible place to do business seems to exemplify the so-called “rooster syndrome”: Namely, the rooster crowed and the sun came up; therefore, the rooster’s crowing caused the sun to come up. This is an instance of the logical fallacy described by the Latin phrase “post hoc ergo propter hoc.” Burton shifted its manufacturing; therefore, Vermont’s allegedly poor business environment caused it.

From what I read, Burton has also been manufacturing in China, which has a considerably less humane approach to workers than does Austria. See, for instance, Edward Burtynsky’s film Manufactured Landscapes, which visually documents some of the harsh realities of China’s new economy. Reading some of the criticisms emanating from the predictable critics, it is not hard to conclude that they would have Vermont move less toward an Austrian socio/political economy and more toward a Chinese system.

Vermont has seen an ebb and flow of manufacturing for years. Long before IBM came here, Springfield was known far and wide as Precision Valley, a world-center of machine tool manufacturing. Springfield now is a hollow shell of what it once was, and the reasons for its demise as Vermont’s manufacturing Goliath are rooted in causes other than the bumper sticker complaints about our present business environment.

]]> By: BP http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/the-austrian-delusion/comment-page-1#comment-747 BP Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:59:13 +0000 http://www.vermontnewsguy.com/?p=1816#comment-747 Hey indeedy... "All described by news media who acted the part of clueless doofuses who believed everything they were told, and even a few things they were not." The Vermont News Guy reads as if it were written by a blogger today! Hey indeedy…
“All described by news media who acted the part of clueless doofuses who believed everything they were told, and even a few things they were not.”

The Vermont News Guy reads as if it were written by a blogger today!

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