Posted on 02/07/2011 4:08:13 AM PST by Kaslin
Spin, spin, spin, o hell you cannot hit the spin cycle those are made in Mexico.
Global interdependence and global control.
Yeah, right.
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Except we are importing 60,000 H1-B visa holders to keep wages down in those areas of employment. The rape continues, nothing to see here, move along. Lay back and enjoy it.
The data does not lie. We still manufacture more than anyone else.
However, we could be bigger and do much more manufacturing here.
The problem is not greedy corporations or Chinese wages.
The problem is liberal policies....taxes, regulations, liability and environmentalism that has driven many industries out of this country and prevented more industries from expanding here.
Never believe it yourself, and never let anyone else believe, that manufacturing is leaving for any other reason than liberal policies that have made our companies into the bad guys, saddled them with budensome regulations, taxed them to hell and NIMBY’d their expansion plans.
Manufacturing is strong in this country. They have automated much of it, to avoid lazy employees and unions....and to be competitive with low wages in other countries.
But manufacturing could be stronger. See my previous post.
Hmmmm. Is there something wrong with this picture? Not if you're the one guy getting 10% on that single item and don't give a hoot about the 299 people that are working for minimum wage. It's just dandy that those folks are waiting for you to spend your profits on imported goodies so they can restock the shelves or sell you batteries and yogurt.
The author fails to address the disparity in the article regarding these two quotes that he makes:
“factory employment has declined because factory productivity has so dramatically skyrocketed: Revolutions in technology enable an American worker today to produce far more than his counterpart did a generation ago.”
“A vast amount of “stuff” is still made in the USA, albeit not the inexpensive consumer goods that fill the shelves in Target or Walgreen’s”
Why have the “skyrocketing productivity” and the “revolutions in technology”
skipped over the manufacturing of these “inexpensive consumer goods”?
Why can these things be made by foreigners and shipped here cheaper than we can make them for ourselves?
This bears repeating.
It's just like people who complain about the humidity. They obviously haven't been to Phoenix or Las Vegas.
You can still get items at Wal Mart that is made in the US, You just have to look. I find them all the time
Truth is unacceptable to a mind that is made up
A large part of the problem is greedy corporations. Executives to be exact who manage quarter to quarter to wall street expectations.
They have moved manufacturing, engineering and much of the IT off shore. All in the name of their own stock options.
After moving 50% of IT off shore our CEO was asked why executive jobs are not off shored. We were told because this is an American company. He was serious.
He addressed that point.
Awhhh so lots of American stuff everywhere except for the places most people shop. Gotcha.
-——A large part of the problem is greedy corporations.-——
That is pure drivel. Anti capitalists such as yourself are the enemies of America. I imagine at the root you have a union family background and hate business because of the constant propaganda pounded into you head. Perhaps worse, you are an Obama Marxist hell bent to destroy our great capitalist system.
Either way you are seriously misguided
I do look and I never find them.
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