[cripplecreek]

Bringing the regulatory costs and taxes down would lead to a boom.

[umgud]

Unfortunately, the left and the EPA will fight “energy intensive” industries.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Last year America ran a new all-time record high trade deficit with the Peoples Republic of China.

342 billion dollars. Way up from the year before.

And that is still growing.

The global trade system, is completely broken.

[Abathar]

Very good news, now if they will just lower our taxes a little and couple it with the EPA decision today we could actually see some manufacturing increases here soon.

[Brad from Tennessee]

. . .in other news

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS OBAMA FROM IMPLEMENTING
DRACONIAN FRACKING RULES

DENVER — A federal judge agreed Tuesday to postpone the Obama administration’s tough new hydraulic fracturing restrictions just hours before they were scheduled to take effect.

U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl in Casper, Wyoming, gave both sides another week to submit arguments and citations before making a final decision on the request for a stay, which is expected July 22.

Four Western states — Colorado, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming — along with two oil and gas industry groups had asked the court to delay the Bureau of Land Management rule slated to kick in Wednesday until their lawsuits could be heard. . .

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/judge-postpones-obama-administrations-fracking-rul/

[American Constitutionalist]

Is that the cost of raw materials and energy ?

Lower taxes, regulations, get rid of unions and might be able to produce cheaper than China ?

[Red_Devil 232]

Manufacturing Cost are low because we are not manufacturing anything!

[PapaBear3625]

“A 5% price discrepancy in manufacturing between China and the US doesn’t amount to much,” says BCG’s David Gee, “when you consider that US manufacturers face the risks of delay when shipping from China, the threat of port strikes, and the local investments and partnerships that Beijing often requires of foreign companies doing business there.”

Add to that the theft of intellectual property, and the certainty that any successful product will shortly have copies being made at a Chinese-owned factory down the road, staffed by your former employees which YOU trained in how to make it right.

It's not really worth while to make anything in China, if it contains significant design and engineering intellectual property.

[PGR88]

China’s labor force has actually started to shrink, if ever so slightly. 200 million or more abortions will do that to a population.

Its costs are rising and consumers are demanding better quality, workers want better conditions and better pay. Factories using only manual labor have terrible constant turn-over.

Want more freedom?? Give people the right to the fruits of their labor and property rights. China isn’t a model but they’ve come a loooong way since Mao. It is absolutely true the world over.

[Teacher317]

Absolute horse hockey. Manufacturing jobs in the US average $24/hour. Manufacturing jobs in China are around $2-3/hr.