Note the source, and please tell me where all of the USA manufactured stuff is for sale at. Find one toy, small appliance clothing item or computer component that is manufactured domestically. They are playing with numbers.
Watch John Ratzenberger’s Made in America on the Travel Channel...you will find plenty that you didn’t even know existed...
In the last day or three, someone posted an article telling us that 30% of the population of Dalton, Georgia is now hespanic. The carpet mills are there. The jobs are going to the hispanics, if I understood the artcle correctly. My question would be, are these people figured in to the equation presented in the current article? I wonder how many jobs are no longer even counted as existing, if filled . . . maybe . . . just maybe with illegals?
Somebody here suggested that we shouldn’t care where those “crappy” jobs go. I believe there are still millions in America who would want those jobs. I would like to know that if I were to need a job now, I could go get a job, even at lower wage than Mr. Anti-”Crappy” Job would think admirable. My family survived on my taking such jobs (cabinet and furniture plants) in the early 80s. I thank God that they were available and I would never describe the hard, tedious work as “crappy.” I just spoke to two young men this mnorning in the USA who just had to take such jobs, and they are very grateful.
I have friends who paid off their modest homes (as we did) in the last ten years with somewhat lower paying factory jobs and doing the kind of outdoor work that, some are trying to convince us, Americans “don’t want,” and for which we should allow a Mexican invasion. And we saved our money for homes rather than on luxury autos or unnecessary household items (*see note below). Does Mr. Anti-”Crappy” Job happen to be more wealthy and have a larger home (with a large mortgage)? That’s fine, and we don’t begrudge him. Some of us are genuinely happy with more modest lives, have smaller homes (many of us debt free), paid for by doing factory work, yard work, home repair work, and other such things. We are proud of our labor. We are people who were/are not “too expensive.”
I certainly don’t want people leading our nation who would legislate or dictate in such a way as to rob me of the prerogative to be a laborer and to find good simple work. I also don’t want to be robbed of the choice to buy products made by Americans in America.
*The products that we deemed unnecessary while trying to pay off our home would have been all made abroad, anyway.
Caterpillar: Big trucks, big sales, big attitude
Big Yellow is thriving.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/20/100166166/index.htm
Joy Global Inc. Announces Fiscal 2007 Third Quarter Operating Results * New orders up year-over-year to $628 million * Aftermarket orders increase 15 percent
http://www.primenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=125783
Oracle Europe, Middle East & Africa Deliver Record Results for the Fiscal Year 2007
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jun/emea07q4custs.html
Boeing Co. on Wednesday reported a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit compared with a year-ago loss, and raised its full-year forecast as it ramped up delivery of its hot-selling commercial planes and defense sales remained strong.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070725/boeing-earnings.htm
‘us trade with sub-saharan Africa increased 17 percent driven mainly by increases in machinery (including parts for oil field equipment and gas turbines) aircraft, vehicles and parts, electrical machinery (including telecomunications equipment)
http://www.agoa.gov/resources/US-African%20Trade%20Profile%202007%20-%20Final.pdf
Who cares if we are making toys?
All your lumber and building materials are made domestically.
John Deere, Caterpillar, and Agco building construction, farm and timber equipment.
Hershey Foods, Tyson(yuck), Campbell, DelMonte, Nissin making food.
Nearly every glass and plastic bottle, cap, label and contents.
Domestically produced wine.
Office furniture from Haworth, Steelcase, and Knoll.
Paper from Hammermill, International and Weyerhause.
Planes from Boeing, Beech, Cessna and Piper.
Need I go on?