There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about the role of the EXIM and the term "corporate welfare" is a very misleading slogan. The EXIM "bank" is merely the U.S. equivalent of similarly purposed export banks in all other large industrialized countries. They exist solely to promote growth in the national economy through foreign trade. The EXIM does not lend any taxpayer money. It merely provides a government guarantee to private banks that would otherwise be reluctant to loan money to foreign companies for large purchases of U.S. goods. In addition to having a security lien on valuable property (such as aircraft) in event of a rare default, the EXIM charges a fee for its guarantee, which each year, actually pays into the U.S. Treasury more than the cost of operating the EXIM. So, the taxpayers are not really paying anything for EXIM operations. Shutting down the EXIM merely puts U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage in trying to sell goods to foreign buyers, since other countries have demonstrated no intention of closing their export banks. So, in the case of Boeing and GE (aircraft engine and locomotive maker), the lack of a counterweight to foreign export banks simply results in more aircraft sales lost to Airbus. Boeing has 15,000 U.S. suppliers and GE has its own thousands of U.S. suppliers as well. So, it's not just Boeing and GE that are impacted, it's billions of dollars of sales lost by tens of thousands of other U.S. companies across the country as well. BTW, the U.S. government also directly benefits from taxes paid by the U.S. companies and their employees when sales are made with EXIM assistance. When the U.S. is running huge annual deficits already, it's not smart to deliberately reduce its tax income more.
Until I learned about RAW, I did too. Wonder why he likes small jpegs?
Thanks very much. I'll check out his website.
Thank you very much! Just what I wanted to know. There really is a logic process in the numbering.
Being new to digital SLR photography, I find it confusing that the different models of Nikon may not be numbered in a meaningful order. Can anyone tell me the sequence order of Nikon SLR models from least capable to most capable?
Thank you! I've written mine down.