Made In The USA

Return of Dune said:
Wait you are female and I have been a misogynist to you since I met you?
I am truly sorry, I always assumed you were mail.
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ironic that you are talking about misogynist, when your post and your earlier post are completely that. so what if was a woman?

get it?

i'm not though, and your posts show you truly hate women and think they are beneath men. what an asshole. btw...it is male....not mail. dumbass
 
Eye said:
ironic that you are talking about misogynist, when your post and your earlier post are completely that. so what if was a woman?

get it?

i'm not though, and your posts show you truly hate women and think they are beneath men. what an asshole. btw...it is male....not mail. dumbass
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No dickhead, I would only be misogynistic if I knew you were a female, and at this point, I am not convinced you are male.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Keep in mind that a lot of this discussions about the impact of out sourcing to foreign shores is over states. Much of the manufacturing being shipped over seas are lower value added products with low margins and high labor costs. Examples would be OEM's like bicycles, lawn mowers, washing machines, refrigerators or chemical commodities which have fairly low margins.

Technology has had a far greater impact on our job market then outsourcing has. Particularly in basic materials and higher end manufactured products. For example, technology has allowed basic material manufacturers to build state of the art facilities that produce at substantially higher rates at a fraction of the labor cost. For example a primary blast furnace currently operating in East Chicago, Indiana can produce about 25% of the quantity of steel produces in this nation during the height of WWII. Just one plant. Another example is automotive plants used to require a small army of welders and fabricators in the assembly lines to create an automobile. Those jobs have virtually all be replaced by automation and robotics.

So this mythology that American manufacturing is in decay is just not born out by the facts. Substantially more steel is manufactured in this nation now then in 1950 and we currently manufacture around double the number of cars and light trucks per year then we did in 1970.

But to your basic point of supporting our nations industrial base, I pretty much agree. I agree we should but the best way we can do that is to demand products and services for a reasonable price at an acceptable level of quality. I think that buying a second rate product at higher prices to support uncompetative American companies may not really be in my countries best interest. Not that I think that's a problem. I think most people around the world still percieve "Made In The USA" as a stamp of high quality products.
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Nicely done Mott.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Bullshit....jobs go over seas cause they need cheap labor to make cheap shit. When they need excellent skilled labor to make high quality value added products with high margins they come up here and negotiate for wages with the most skilled laborers in the world and that's why you hicks down south eat our dust.
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I have read that some companies are returning to the USA for production because of quality control.
 
Emperor Nero said:
Anyway, especially with the way the economy is depressed right now, these movements can do some good. I'd even say that it's possible that temporary state protectionism could do some good, although that has the potential for retaliation from other countries which may persist into the long-term and can damage our economy. Obviously, if you could convince everyone in America to only buy Americans products, while foreigners failed to retaliate and kept buying American products like normal, we'd be golden. But that's not realistic. There is some room for a little beggar-thy-neighorishness, though.
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Could we do it just enough to promote a steady growth in our economy? Is there a way to keep everyone happy?
 
Emperor Septimius Severus said:
There is a MASSIVE skilled labor gap here in America.
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Agreed. A large reason for that is that the traditional avenues for learning the trades are dissapearing. I think community and juco's are picking up some of the slack there but a lot of the gap is because many young folk just aren't interested in the trades.

Transportation is an area that's going into crises in our countr too. Companies are desperate for qualified Semi-Truck drivers. The average age for a truck driver now is over 50. Young people these days are not going into this line even though it pays well cause they don't like the life style. Can't says I blame them. I wouldn't work as an over the road driver for any amount of money. I like sleeping in my own bed at night.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't reading and understanding said schematic fall under the criteria of "Knowing what the hell you are doing."?
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Dude I can understand them just fine. But then you're from Ohio. I'm sure that simple instructions for a human would be far too advanced for your brain. Frankly I'm surprised you even HAVE electricity.
 
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