[malakhi]

Anyone who thinks it's great that the Chinese Communists are becoming the world's leading machinists and die makers and that American die makers are cleaning carpets to hang onto their houses is a complete total idiot.

I have an uncle who is involved in the auto industry in Detroit. He says they can't find people who want to go into the skilled trades anymore.

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"I have an uncle who is involved in the auto industry in Detroit. He says they can't find people who want to go into the skilled trades anymore."
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In Taiwan, according to my chinese production manager the kids of the production line workers all went to college and do not want to work in the factories, Hence the migration of manufacturing to the mainland.

[lelio]

He says they can't find people who want to go into the skilled trades anymore.

I'm curious: is it that he can't find people that are skilled machinists at $5/hr or at any price? Not knocking you, but I'm always leary when people say that they can't find anyone. There's always going to be a shortage -- at the price you're willing to pay.