I worked as draftsman for a machine tool industry leader in ballscrew manufacturing between ‘78 and ‘81. Not only was the plant full of Bridgeport and other New England-based machine tool brands, we were making ballscrew assemblies for many of their new products. The market for American-made machine tool products began to disappear soon after I jumped over to work as a nomadic “jobbie” in the automotive industry. Plant robotics were the latest big thing at that time. Looking back on it, we seem to have failed to capitalize on it without sacrificing our own machine tool industry.
If the ground remained fertile, seeds would continue to flourish and grow.
The politicians made the ground infertile.
Regulations, taxation, unions and other pressures made the once fertile fields unprofitable. That is the only thing that changed.
1) Back in 1992 someone sad there’d be a giant sucking sound if NAFTA was passed.
2)I wonder how many of current 713,000 residents were born into welfare and never learned to read.
3) I know of a guy who opened a small manufacturing plant in a small Eastern Arkansas delta town. He couldn’t find employees in a town with close to 50% black unemployment. One of the young 18 year old kids said “That man wanted me to get up and be at work at 7:00 in the morning. Man, I don’t have to do that.” The plant was moved to NW Arkansas.
4) Was Sherman was right?