[Willie Green]

ping

[Eagles Talon IV]

A whole lot of words to say that manufacturing in this country is not what it was because the same things we used to build here can now be made less expensively and just as well somewhere else.

Perhaps the union members would like to take a 90% cut in wages and benefits? Didn't think so, nor should they be expected too, but the unions incessant demands for more and more have caused the dollars needed to produce things to go elsewhere so that more product can be mfg for those same dollars.

Mfg as we knew it in America is gone and will never return as long as other countries can pay their workers a dollar an hour.

[devane617]

Look out below for GM and Ford.

[Hank Rearden]

Perhaps union thugs who demand a hell of a lot of money for doing not very much would be willing to get off their subsidized, lazy asses and compete a little bit, huh?

[CSM]

"Large manufacturers don't feel the market changes anywhere near as fast or as hard as the smaller companies," observes Martin Piszczalski,.....

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This guy is full of hot air. This statement alone tells removes any credibility that may have been seen in this article.

[jpsb]

bump

[Malesherbes]

When we start paying our workers a dollar an hour, we'll get our industries back - having cut out the transportation costs from China.

[hosepipe]

Must be why we have the best congress money can buy...