[hedgetrimmer]

Yep and they'll be taking all the mining techniques and research files with them.

Thats ok, Americans don't need to own production anymore because our main product is "creativity" now.

[B4Ranch]

"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." George Orwell

[redgolum]

My brother in law works for a company that is very busy moving production to China. He went into detail why this is such a good thing for the US, since then we can focus on management and "innovation".

I simply asked him why he thought that the places the factories were going are to stupid to manage their own shop.

[chimera]

From the article:

After three years of job losses, the region southeast of San Francisco has steadied itself and is re-emerging as the world headquarters of concepts for gadgets, Web sites and consumer products.

IOW, Entertainment Nation.

[Nowhere Man]

Thats ok, Americans don't need to own production anymore because our main product is "creativity" now.

Com'n, man, I've been saying that "black hole engineering" and "nanotechnology" is the way for all of us to go. We need to shut our pieholes, dude, and waddle down to the nearest Wally World and buy the Junior Atomic Nanotechnology Kit and put our noses to the grindstone. Foo, we are so lazy, who needs jobs anyhoo? /sarcasm> (for the humor impaired)

Come to think of it, I think we've already mastered black hole engineering, that's where our jobs and sovereignty is all going. B-P

[cp124]

Manufacturing causes a snowball of economic activity of companies and employees contributing to the end result.

That economic activity is now replaced by a phone call (soon from India)to China to place an order.