Posted on 07/14/2010 2:22:26 PM PDT by Willie Green
A new Business First study shows that the Buffalo area has lost 35,600 manufacturing jobs in the past 10 years.
That means, on average, that 300 manufacturing jobs are disappearing from Erie and Niagara County every week -- roughly 10 every day.
We’re not alone, of course. Ninety-eight of the nation’s 100 biggest markets have fewer manufacturing jobs now than they did a decade ago. Six have lost more than 100,000 positions.
The database below has the complete breakdowns for all 100 of those metros. You can sort the list by any column just by clicking the appropriate header.
Additional details are available at this link.
(Excerpt) Read more at buffalo.bizjournals.com ...
That’s what you told us back then - when unemployment was hovering around 4% - right?
I told ya, it’s that Giant Suckin’ Sound, Larry...
Manufacturing jobs don’t “slip away”. They are pushed away by a slew of factors like onerous tax rates, overly-restrictive zoning laws, environmentalist interference through lawsuits of expansion or road-building, unreasonable union demands, lazy graduates of incompetent education systems, high housing prices and transportation costs, credit availability and more, all of which, incidentally, are in the control of our ever-expanding government.
Once you've invested your capital, there are countless entities that are ready to make you a hostage to your investment, starting with your local government and going clear up to the feds.
Add in the labor unions, and you've got a recipe for Galt's Gulch.
Once you've invested your capital, there are countless entities that are ready to make you a hostage to your investment, starting with your local government and going clear up to the feds.
Add in the labor unions, and you've got a recipe for Galt's Gulch.
The only one left in DC after the November elections should be king zero. Let us make him the fool on the hill. Vote each and everyone of these rat bastards out of office.
Yes. Dubya should’ve listened to me.
I’ll take that “lousy” economy.
Funny we’re talking about this as the oil rigs start moving to African shores while the government piddles.
The ‘Progressives’ mean to return to a feudal system.
It is a shame when it makes better economic sense to expand in communist China.
“The ‘Progressives’ mean to return to a feudal system.”
And we know which side of the system those “Oppressives” would be found on, wouldn’t we? Sadly, the feudal system was upheld to some extent by a belief in the divine right of kings and here we are facing a political system that is assuming religious overtones, especially in the environmental areas.
It’s the condesending tone these ‘progressives’ have assumed all the while telling the dumb masses they’re doing this for the ‘common good’. But we know it’s for power merely for powers sake.
“It’s the condesending tone these ‘progressives’ have assumed all the while telling the dumb masses they’re doing this for the ‘common good’.”
Most “progressives” are every bit as dependent as those they purport to care about. They depend on government grants of one type or another to finance their lifestyles. The other segment of the population about which they are familiar are the ones dependent on welfare and charity. I think they see society split into the following, as they would define them: (1) those who absolutely need government help and who don’t want to assume responsibility for their lives; (2) those like themselves who have stepped in to control the lives of those helpless folks, and (3) those middle-class folks who are too stupid to have figured out how to rip off the government and therefore deserve to be parted from their illgotten gains and controlled by group (2). A large part of our society looks on those who want to be independent as rubes, ripe for the picking.
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