Posted on 11/13/2010 11:41:30 AM PST by Kay Ludlow
This is PA today - we work for government at some level and our spouses work in the service sector, and we buy food, eat out and shop. No real manufacturers of any kind in the Top 50. With Federal and State Agencies listed separately, 25 of the Top 50 are associated with government in some way (like being part of the State education system). I suppose the chances are thin that the newly Republican State House, State Senate and State Governor will do anything to clean out DCNR and DEP, the agencies that have been instrumental in forcing nearly all maufacturing out of the state. They talk the talk about sustainability, but I just can't see how sustainable it is for a state to have this kind of employment picture over the long run. Our jobs have all been eliminated or exported...
2 U S POSTAL SERVICE
3 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
4 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
5 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA
6 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
7 GIANT FOOD STORES LLC
8 DEPT OF DEFENSE
9 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
10 PA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
11 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC
12 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
13 PNC BANK NA
14 US DEPT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS
15 UPMC PRESBYTERIAN
16 STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
17 WEIS MARKETS INC
18 PA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
19 LOWE'S HOME CENTERS INC
20 GIANT EAGLE INC
21 MERCK & CO INC
22 TARGET DIV OF TARGET CORP
23 THE HOME DEPOT USA INC
24 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
26 K-MART CORPORATION
27 GMRI INC
28 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
29 HEARTLAND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
30 US AIRWAYS INC
31 COMCAST CABLEVISION CORP (PA)
32 PENNSYLVANIA BLUE SHIELD
33 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
34 ALLEGHENY COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES
35 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV HOSPITAL
36 SE PA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
37 MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
38 PENNSYLVANIA CVS PHARMACY LLC
39 VERIZON PENNSYLVANIA INC
40 EAT'N PARK RESTAURANTS INC
41 ACME MARKETS INC
42 U.S. DEPT OF TREASURY
43 SEARS ROEBUCK & CO
44 WAWA INC
45 RITE AID OF PENNSYLVANIA INC
46 MBNA INSTITUTIONAL PA SERVICES LLC
47 SHEETZ INC
48 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY
49 PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE
50 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS
In most cities over 100,000 in population you will find that the biggest employers are the school system and the city’s/county’s biggest hospital.
Whatever happened to the notion of creating wealth by taking raw materials, adding labor + a good idea and creating a product that somebody wants to buy?
8 of the top 10 are government pseudo job entities.
It got up and moved to India and China.
No wonder the taxes are insane! in a place loaded with natural resources and farm land this is insanity!!
Steel and castings in all metals,Stampings ,the best Pottery in the world, Coal,Oil,Fruit and vegetables,Diary products to name a couple, Unions and Lefty plague ruined that place.
unions
The Post Office is the nation’s biggest employer.
On the Fruit, Vegetable and Dairy front - they are working to kill that with the 0% pollution to the Chesapeake Bay by 2025 and the no dust in the air regulations coming from the EPA. Apparently our abundant resources are only “ours” for the state to lock up, not “ours” to actually use even though we are deeded land and pay extortionate taxes on that land.
“On the Fruit, Vegetable and Dairy front - they are working to kill that with the 0% pollution to the Chesapeake Bay by 2025 and the no dust in the air regulations coming from the EPA. Apparently our abundant resources are only “ours” for the state to lock up, not “ours” to actually use even though we are deeded land and pay extortionate taxes on that land.”
The EPA needs tore out by the roots,That bunch of Pinkos have done huge damage to our country.
Pa was such a nice place now it has degenerated into lefty land.
Yowza, can you imagine what it would be like if Rendell runs for President?
ping
1 WAL-MART ASSOCIATES INC = retail and food, buys 70% +! of non-food from overseas
2 U S POSTAL SERVICE
3 CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
4 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
5 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA
6 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
7 GIANT FOOD STORES LLC = retail, food
8 DEPT OF DEFENSE
9 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
10 PA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
11 UNITED PARCEL SERVICE INC = service. No production
12 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
13 PNC BANK NA = service/finance. No production
14 US DEPT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS
15 UPMC PRESBYTERIAN
16 STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
17 WEIS MARKETS INC = Retail only.
18 PA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
19 LOWE’S HOME CENTERS INC = Retail only. Much (40%) is purchased
20 GIANT EAGLE INC = Retail, food
21 MERCK & CO INC = Shipping of everybody’s else’s stuff that they sell. No production
22 TARGET DIV OF TARGET CORP = Retail. 30 - 60 imported.
23 THE HOME DEPOT USA INC = Retail. 40% imported.
24 THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
26 K-MART CORPORATION = Retail. 60% imported. With Sears now.
27 GMRI INC
28 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
29 HEARTLAND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES = Temp services
30 US AIRWAYS INC = Shipping (of people)
31 COMCAST CABLEVISION CORP (PA) = Entertainment/service. No production.
32 PENNSYLVANIA BLUE SHIELD
33 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
34 ALLEGHENY COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES
35 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV HOSPITAL
36 SE PA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
37 MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER
38 PENNSYLVANIA CVS PHARMACY LLC = Retail. 20% - 30% imported.
39 VERIZON PENNSYLVANIA INC = Service.
40 EAT’N PARK RESTAURANTS INC = Service/Food.
41 ACME MARKETS INC =
42 U.S. DEPT OF TREASURY
43 SEARS ROEBUCK & CO = Retail. 40% imported. With KMart.
44 WAWA INC =
45 RITE AID OF PENNSYLVANIA INC = Retail. 40% imported.
46 MBNA INSTITUTIONAL PA SERVICES LLC
47 SHEETZ INC = Retail. Food.
48 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY
49 PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE
50 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS
So. Just what are we producing in Pennsylvania any more? Other than people.
(Who eat, go to school, shop, get health care, and go to jail. And pay taxes for doing all of that?)
Wow - is there even one manufacturing employer on the list? When I was growing up in Pa it would have included U.S. Steel, Westinghouse, PPG, etc.
Unions killed that idea a long time ago.
Aye, 50 - 60 years ago the list would have included U.S. Steel, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Caterpillar tractor, Allis Chalmers Corporation.
Now all we “produce” are pills and the paperwork to purchase them.
But it is still a valid premise, it’s just that the govt. throws every obstacle in the way of manufacturing companies that they can think of. And large manufacturers are not blameless in that they employ cadres of accountants and engineers who are assigned to find ways to shave pennies off of the cost of each product. These folks seem to turn overseas for paper savings without regard to service and quality control, to say nothing of shipping.
A famous lock manufacturer here just announced that they are pulling their work home from Mexico and China because they found that it just didn’t pay. We bid on some of that work about 10 years ago and made some very fine prototypes for them, but they wanted to send it overseas because that is what everyone else was doing. After a decade of trying to work out the problems, they have decided to bring the work back onshore.
I don’t know if we’ll get the chance to bid on it again, and I don’t know if we want to. Our company has shrunk from what it was 10 years ago, and we are very busy with other work. It’s a thought, however.
I wonder what the trade-off is between cheap labor thousands of miles away and the transportation costs to bring those goods back to the US for sale? I hope we can institute the Fair Tax and get those jobs back in America.
I don’t know the answer to that question. I do know that before we owned our own business, but husband was #2 in a very large gear manufacturing company. His direct labor costs were 6 1/2 % of the finished product. It would be insanity to outsource that work overseas, unless the finished product was to be sold in another country.
They did have 2 offshore locatons, but that was just because those countries would not allow goods built elsewhere to be imported. So, my husband’s company just set up divisions in those countries. However, those installations were always a drag on the company overall. Especially in Brazil during the days of runaway inflation. The Brazilian operation had to be subsidized heavily from here when the money in Brazil was devaluating at a rapid rate.
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