I haven't heard anything.....but that's food for thought. All I know is we've been a outsourcing a tremendous amount of jobs to India in the past 20yrs.....which is the LAST thing we need.
I hear "buy American" all the time....but there is precious little manufactured here anymore. Our gov't has systematically and deliberately dismantled our status as the industrial leader of the world.... by hamstringing our business with heavy taxes and burdensome regulations which make it impossible to compete with 3rd world sweat shops.
Take that and the unions demanding top $$ for even menial labor jobs... minimum wage requirements strapped to the rest....etc....there's no way to "buy American" for most everything we need. I could go on....but that's my rant for the day.
And that is just it...the unions have had so many demands that it is now impossible to manufacture goods in this country that people can afford so sure, companies go off shore to manufacture goods needed here at a cost that is reasonable for them and that patrons here can pay.
I wonder how Americans would like to pay 100.00 for a hammer made in the USA? ( that is about what it costs in Iceland)..an ordinary household hammer?
But all the yahoos that complain about this very thing are some of the people who vote in democrats and others who would go along to give the unions every demand they have and then wonder why we are going broke.