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To: Made in USA

This is the most asinine suggestion ever, yet it keeps popping up as if it were viable solution. Made in China products are now found in nearly every single retail store. Even products not assembled in China have ample Made in China parts.


8 posted on 07/08/2006 3:08:47 PM PDT by kinetics
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To: kinetics
Even products not assembled in China have ample Made in China parts.

You must have actual manufacturing knowledge to make that statement.

Many other posters assume that because the numbers for American manufacturing as a whole are stable or up the sector is doing well.

Take as an example what I know first hand. I doubt you can find an American made casting on a Case or Deere loader or tractor. Yet every one off the line counts entirely as a US made product.

We have in one of out plants right now 6 Case wheel loader castings that we are gleefully overcharging to machine into another part number because they can't get new castings from China for another 6-8 months.

Idiots.

47 posted on 07/08/2006 8:25:38 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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