Energy costs will also play a role.
Translation: Fracking has made energy cheaper and the Chinese workers are getting uppity, whereas the Obama depression has put US workers right where we want them.
0bama has destroyed wages and the middle class, created a huge mass of unemployed, so we are now cost competitive.
More union jobs? oh goody?
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Yeah right.
Let me know when it happens.
No a poll that says pretty much the same thing as last years poll does not confirm anything.
Significant actual reshoring would confirm it.
Not much chance. At least not with the current assault on American business, investment, and jobs . Perhaps other countries with low labor costs , yes. Or somewhat more if USA ever returns to a pro- economic growth, pro- jobs national policy. Or even just neutral
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.)
Do these traitors really believe that the communists are going to allow it?
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.
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.
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.?
Obama is bringing home jobs!!!
From my experience buying a number of Chinese manufactured products, many Chinese “businesses” are fraud perpetrators masquerading as legitimate businesses. Jut start with dog poison fobbed off as “dog food.” Then there are a lot of smaller outfits that deliberately manufacture shoddy products to rip off consumers. I was burned by a defective electrical sprayer that never sprayed due to bad internal seals. I’ve just returned a beautifully designed floor lamp to Lowe’s because of horrible manufacturing that included holes drilled too large for the screws and an undersized washer that made secure attachment of the arm to the base impossible. A manufacturer’s contracting with the Chinese is like playing Russian Roulette.
Desperate Americans have been grasping at these BS stries for years now; simple logistics indicate that most of our lost jobs are gone forever. Why build things here if the buyers are in Asia anyway? Southern Asia still has much cheaper labor than the US or Red China; jobs leaving Red China are going there instead.
How long before Americans accept that much of the decline in our standard of living is permanent?