Posted on 12/16/2016 6:58:35 PM PST by central_va
We have re-rated the statement as True and removed the older report from Trump's Truth-O-Meter record.
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Yes, we thought we were living large with a Zenith TV.
It’s been a long time since TVs had to “warm up” to get the picture!
Possibly, the person who told me about Quasar owned a TV retail store/repair service and he would only sell and work on US made TVs. Quasar was the only brand he was selling in 1983.
So his remarks definitely referred to the last US brand TV assembly line in the US.
Zenith made picture tubes in the US in the mid-1990s, but their TVs were assembled in Mexico. I think the last TV assembly plant in the US was a Sony factory in Arizona.
And I don’t know when the Quasar assembly line shut down, only that it was still going in the early 1980s.
I live in Ohio and that’s about the size of it. I sometimes wonder though. If there were hundreds of new manufacturing plants tomorrow, is the workforce really there for it? The small business owners I know struggle to find or keep people. Will the younger ones show up five days a week, shift work, consistently?
Try fighting a war without lead production.
That article is undated, and that list appears to be obsolete.
If I remember correctly, they closed because of the damned ecologists. How do you make ammo without lead? Steel shot is garbage when it comes to killing power. We’d better get rid of the eco bums if we want to save our country.
That’s beautiful. TVs were furniture back in those days.
You get what you pay for. Goes for employees too.
We just bought a 40 inch LG 1080p TV for mrs riverdawg’s craft room for $250. Essentially the same TV cost us over $400 four years ago when we replaced our main TV in the den.
Yep. Zeniths had very few problems, few service calls. Excellent picture.
And best TVs.
'The quality Goes in Before the Name Goes On'
Had a 19" B&W portable bought in 1961. Tube type, hand wired.
Was going strong in 1984 when I finally gave it away.
PC’s dropped in price every year even when they were still made in the USA.
They will show up when they work or go hungry. Look forward to a lot of trimming in the social aids that are destroying our formerly great work ethic. That’s part of the jobs, jobs, jobs, narrative. Working people pay taxes and non working people living free on the backs of others don’t pay taxes. We’ll go back to being a rich country again and pay off our debts.
What? We can’t make a stinking armlift?
“I don’t care what PolitiFact thinks is true or false.”
Trust your instincts - they’re right. Politifact is put out by the Tampa Bay Times which is as Left as any paper published in the U.S., and that includes the Washing Compost and the NY Slimes.
I have never said that NO manufacturing jobs have been lost to off shoring. The studies I have seen find that for every manufacturing job “lost” to off shoring, eight have been “lost” to automation. We will never have the level of manufacturing employment we had before 1975, largely because of labor-saving technological change. Sure, we could pass a law mandating that everything we consume has to be produced in the US but, collectively, we would be much, much worse off.
The problem you mention is not confined to manufacturing. One of our friends is the head of HR at a large hospital here. He says that about half of all job applicants for positions other than staff physician cannot get through the criminal background check or drug screen.
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