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BTW, just got off the phone with a friend of mine who has a machine screw business, and he says business is up and all his manufacturing suppliers say their business is up. But, please, answer my question.

[Nov3]

BTW, just got off the phone with a friend of mine who has a machine screw business, and he says business is up and all his manufacturing suppliers say their business is up.

WOW things are great after all. I must be imagining all the Chinese lettering in the recieving department!

As to your question again. The normal business cycle will have jobs created and lost. What is happening is not a normal business cycle. There have been uptrends but ONLY A MORON WOULD THINK THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IS DOING WELL. I don't know why I am arguing with you. You won't grasp the obvious. It is not good in the long term for factories to close here and open in China. If you can't see that. . . . . . . .

The difference in the recieving dock in the past ten years is unbelievable and it represents lost jobs.