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To: Mark Landsbaum

Well, that’s where the supply chain is.

There’s a lot more to having a factory than just the factory. You have to be able to get all the parts where needed in a very short time, and be able to make corrections at one factory without shutting down another.

Say one tiny screw is flawed. For whatever reason, it must be redesigned, remanufactured, and redelivered - by the millions. You don’t make the screws in-house, you buy ‘em from another factory. What happens? The new iPhone factory, for most practical purposes, _shuts_down_ because they can’t keep making iPhones with flawed screws. In China, the proximity and interaction of those factories is such that they can be churning out new screws and have ‘em delivered in a few hours. In California, that new factory may be halted for days or weeks because those screws are - tada - made in China. Keeping just-in-time inventory in mind, the consequences of such a delay for such a “minor” component are staggering.

Not sayin’ it’s a good thing. Just sayin’ that’s what is. You can build a new factory in California, but churning high-complexity stuff out fast enough - given that it’s all built from stuff made in other factories, much of which is in turn from other factories - just can’t compete when most of the parts come from across the ocean. CA drove out the manufacturing infrastructure; getting upset that a new high-tech factory isn’t built there misses huge points.


45 posted on 05/22/2012 11:31:12 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Cloud storage? Dropbox rocks! Sign up at http://db.tt/nQqWGd3 for 2GB free (and I get more too).)
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To: ctdonath2

I take exception to your remark that California drove out manufacturing.

It really was the federal government that has done this, aided and abetted by globalist governors like Jerry Brown and Arnold Scharzenegger who make big money from their associations with Indonesian and Chinese dictators, for selling off California’s assets and contracts to the communists.

The federal government set into motion the corruption of the rule of law and the US Constitution with ‘free trade’ and executive orders forcing ‘harmonization’ throughout the government with international governmental agencies.

Corrupt state officials wholeheartedly jumped on the bandwagon following massive campaigns to corrupt local government by foreign governments (mexicos ‘embassies’ scattered every in the country) and international governmental bodies like ICLEI wining and dining local government officials at ‘confereneces’ where everything is ‘free’ and the agendas and programs are private so citizens don’t know what their elected officials are up to.

The federal government turns a blind eye to the unconstitutional actions of state governors, who essentially are treaty making with foreign governments, because they too are ‘investors’ in communism and slave labor abroad.


48 posted on 05/22/2012 11:44:59 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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