The data does not lie. We still manufacture more than anyone else.
However, we could be bigger and do much more manufacturing here.
The problem is not greedy corporations or Chinese wages.
The problem is liberal policies....taxes, regulations, liability and environmentalism that has driven many industries out of this country and prevented more industries from expanding here.
Never believe it yourself, and never let anyone else believe, that manufacturing is leaving for any other reason than liberal policies that have made our companies into the bad guys, saddled them with budensome regulations, taxed them to hell and NIMBY’d their expansion plans.
This bears repeating.
A large part of the problem is greedy corporations. Executives to be exact who manage quarter to quarter to wall street expectations.
They have moved manufacturing, engineering and much of the IT off shore. All in the name of their own stock options.
After moving 50% of IT off shore our CEO was asked why executive jobs are not off shored. We were told because this is an American company. He was serious.
So those tennis shoe people have reduced the sales price to reflect the cheaper chinese product. Learn something new everyday. You know at one time we had five major farm tractor brands built in this country, today we have none. The do assemble some of the two large to ship units and that is it.
Exactly correct, and very well said.
The local Gannett generipaper did a (shocking to me that they did this) series on a guy starting a donut factory in Indiana.
He was converting an old building, and was able to get a great deal on machinery from another company that went out of business. It was incredible the number of agencies, inspections, permits and costs he had to go through.
The guy has 2 employees (young able bodied guys). He had to spend a bunch of money building two (male/female) fully handicapped accessible OSHA qualified crappers.