It would be nice if the author included a list of all the things made in the USA that could be bought in your local mall. Anyone have any idea what this guy has in mind?
All of the author's hyperbole aside, what were the numbers 30, 20 and ten years ago?
Also, it's been easy to maintain a high output by having people work seven days a week and cutting crews.
Where are the numbers on the man hours vs. production value?
My hubby is skilled labor in a plant that makes liquior bottles. When you buy Jack Daniels or several other hard liquiors they are made start to finish in the USA.
He is right, as far as he goes. The problem is that in certain strategically important areas we’ve let our manufacturing sector decline, *not* that we have let our manufacturing sector decline to the point we are no longer an industrial nation. Steel and chip-making come to mind. I wouldn’t favor protectionism, but some sort of policies to see to it we have at least a reserve capacity in those areas would be a good idea.
Heck, even the U.K. is still a major industrial nation, and they’re further down the path we’ve been on in a lot of ways.
This article is completely misleading. While we do have a good many places that ASSEMBLE, I would like to know how many of the parts of the items aren’t manufactured outside the US?
There was a couple who tried to find an item that was 100% made in the USA. That means nuts, bolts, electronic parts, etc... I don’t think they found anything.
With close to 10% unemployment, I get a real kick out of people who try to act as if all the manufacturing jobs we shipped off-shore, wouldn’t be helpful here at home right now.
Imagine, having to actually pay a U.S. Citizen to pick up a phone and handle customer service calls. Aren’t we proud that we have people out of work, so people in India and China can have a job?
Welfare, unemployment payments, and service sector jobs. What a rosy future...
to read later
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The biggest misconception is that the United States no longer
makes anything (A CONTRARIAN VIEW)
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Whether or not this report is true...
we need to follow the sign that appeared in public places in the
devastated Germany soon after WWII was over:
EXPORT OR DIE
We’ve been fighting the wars for freedom, sometimes doing most of
the heavy lifting after WWII.
Time to come home and make things the rest of world wants/needs.
(and I say that with respect for the US Government doing all it could
to save a number of countries from enslavement)
I worked for 30+ years in a large manufacturing plant. (I am now retired.) The peak employment at that site was almost 24,000 people in the early to mid 1970s. The plant now employs well less than 5,000 people.
The output per employee (in terms of finished products) is much higher now than in past years, and improvements in productivity are partially responsible. A much larger reason is that almost all of the parts used in the plant are made elsewhere, many of them in Mexico, Central, or South America. When I first started working there, almost all of the parts were made in house. Essentially, the site is just an assembly plant now.
Of six main manufacturing buildings - once all full - two are now vacant, and three are only being partially used.
There are two auto assembly plants in my city. I took a tour of one of them a few years back. Engines came from Germany, transmissions from Brazil, axles from Mexico, smaller parts from all over the place. Yet this is supposed to be an "American" auto company.
So, who you gonna believe, your lying eyes or this shill? We are still a great manufacturing nation. Yeah, right.
Manufacturing is the heart of wealth creation for any country and we have been exporting various manufacturing industries from the USA for decades. Where did our shoe industry go? Watches? Toys?
When I look at the things I purchase on an everyday basis including food it seems about 80 percent or more of it comes from another country.
Is this guy also the author of Alice in Wonderland???
Spend a day shopping and read the labels and anyone will see that manufacturing in general has left the US...
This story is a joke and a very poor one at that.
What do we make in this country?
I missed that part.
Where do we make?
Damn, I missed that part, also.
Here is the largest employer in Montana...THE GOVERNMENT!!!
BOZEMAN – Government is now the largest employment sector in the state.
Government surpassed the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities category in final January numbers, according to statistics on hours and earnings from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://montana.watchdog.org/2010/04/12/government-now-largest-employment-sector-in-montana/
Of the top 20 US Manufacturers, "Oil & Coal" and "Computers" make up literally HALF of the entire list.
More Liberal Globalist spin....if the USA still manufactures so much, as this author claims....why can’t we find “Made in America” anywhere?
Heck we even import FOOD now.....
And, in monetary amounts, $$$, Germany, in most years, surpasses the US overall in manufacturing.....and is way ahead per capita....doing so with 80 million people and 140,000 square miles of land....
Liberal Globalists need to stop spinning, stop lying....until the USA reverts to a manufacturing power...complete with tariffs....it is not going to lead in manufacturing. Reality is....that when the USA had strong tariffs.....it became the global leader in manufacturing and economy