To: SeekAndFind
By 1955, Appliance Park employed 16,000 workers …Employment kept rising through the ’60s, but it peaked at 23,000 in 1973 …Appliance Park will end this year with 3,600 hourly employees 211,000,000 US population in 1973
313,000,000 US population in 2012
This is a “Good News” story? We’re making a comeback? Are we some kind of manufacturing giant today? Swarming with good manufacturing jobs, are we?
5 posted on
12/15/2012 10:59:31 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I’ll grant that this is a step in the right direction, but you’re right, it’s not near enough.
10 posted on
12/15/2012 11:16:04 AM PST by
TwelveOfTwenty
(Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
To: ClearCase_guy
Well, there is just a *tad* more automation in manufacturing here in 2012 than there was in 1973.
This is material to the discussion.
13 posted on
12/15/2012 11:26:46 AM PST by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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