Posted on 05/21/2014 10:49:57 AM PDT by ckilmer
This story is entirely correct, with an ever so small misleading concept.
Machining has already made a return to America. And you should see one of these new centers. Hundreds and hundreds of machines. Where are the people? Oh there’s a few low to moderately paid folks driving around on carts that deliver raw materials to and pick up finished products from the machine. And a very few well paid people in a glass walled office programming the machines.
Automation and computerization have allowed the creation of machines that are better than people, even if the people worked for nothing (wastage and mistakes make the difference).
And if you are going to have millions (or billions) of dollars sunk in the ground, why do it in some foreign country where they might decided to nationalize things?
Yes, these industries ARE coming back. But the number of jobs that will come back with them will be a pittance compared to what left. And since the liberals have decided to turn schools into propaganda factories that produce nothing but dullards, the good jobs of programming the machines will all go to Indians.
But we will be racially, culturally, and sexual orientation sensitive.
But do it after the general election. (When a Republican is in control of the White House.)
According to Harry Moser, founder/president of the Reshoring Initiative, we have already stopped the economic bleeding caused by offshoring.
Since 2003, new offshoring is DOWN by 70% to 80% and new reshoring is UP by 1500%.
The most important accomplishment has been the net-loss of 100,000+ manufacturing jobs each year has ended.
New reshoring is now balancing new offshoring at about 40,000 manufacturing jobs/year, resulting in the first neutral year of job loss/gain in the last 20.
Reshoring is happening because overseas locations are becoming less attractive and reshoring is gaining momentum because it is helping U.S. manufacturers recover from offshoring’s poor quality, trade secret thefts, supply chain disruptions and lengthly delivery times – all while staying cost competitive.
http://www.manufacturingindustryadvisor.com/reshoring-is-gaining-momentum/
I am suspicious of the analysis and do not have time to research it right now. Maybe you can answer some questions about the analysis for me.
Do the analysis include regulatory and taxation in their cost of manufacturing?
What is included in their manufacturing, export and GDP #s?
The deflation of the dollar and the shrinking wages along with a seemingly oversupply of labor certainly lends some plausibility to the analysis. BUT, the cost of doing business in the US is in the top 5 in the world when you include taxation, regulatory adherence, licensing, permitting, legal fees, etc. I suspect they may have left that out but maybe you have some insight on it.
PRECISELY!
Do these traitors really believe that the communists are going to allow it?
This is actually horrible news for Obama. He hates the US, he hates fracking, he hates fossil fuel, he hates capitalism, he hates trained hard-working independent people, and he hates American prosperity. Best news I’ve herd in many months.
Also, they may be worried about the safety of their investments (and executive’s lives) should things get ugly between the US and China. There’s also the consideration of China stealing intellectual property, and opening up their own production facilities selling comparable (or counterfeit) products.
They have the inside track on the Crat traitor amnesty plans?
Either this is a satire site, or it is complete BS. With the coming cost of Obamacare, the rising cost of EPA regulatory complaince and the increasing cost of energy, it would be a death knell to re-shore to the US right now.
Not in our case. This is a fairly low-tech product manufactured with a fairly low-tech machine. No robotics involved.
Hey, we are in agreement on a thread! I better acknowledge it when such a thing happens.
;-)
One thing that is helping “reshoring” is the many billions of dollars America’s railroads have spent on rolling stock and increased track capacity. That means very efficient movement of goods, lowering production costs.
For example, a doublestack container train can move 250 doublestack containers with only five locomotives (two in the lead, one in the middle and one in the rear operated in remote distributed power fashion). That’s extremely fuel-efficient, since the fuel consumed by five locomotives is a tiny fraction of 250 tractor-trailer rigs pulling each container.
The worker bees? Not so much.
Dude, that brought a tear to my eye! lol Lovely.
Anybody want to bet most of those jobs won’t be going to blue high tax states like California, NY, NJ, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, etc.?
It will be a financial boon initially, however in the long run the fines will increase to a point that it will cause more and more off shoring.....
Obama is bringing home jobs!!!
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