rush is full of it
manufacturing jobs are disappearing
i personally worked at 4 companies that are now making all over in China
Pratt & Whitney engines
all the mom and pop machine shops that made parts are gone
service jobs are what are being creeated
I sent 115 drawings of a compamny’s products and within one year that entire line was being made in China and they laid off 150 people
Rush has NEVER had a manufacturing job, all he is doing is quoting some airhead
Come to new england. we used to make everything
every major industry up here is GONE
Aerospace is now outsourced to China or has left the state
auto parts now made in Mexico, samping done in China, Jet engines made in China and Poland, machined parts for fuel controls made in Mexico
textiles now made in Vietnam instead of Rockville, Ct
the list goes on
RUSH, Come back to Bristol, look at the abandoned factories, ask where they went
then drive around the rest of Connecticut. Count the abandoned factories. Ask where the work went.
Drive around Worcestor, ask where the work went
drive around Springfield, ask where the work went, where are the factories that existed for years and put tens of thousands of people to work?
Rush is not denying that manufacturing jobs are disappearing. What he is saying is that the amount of total manufacturing has stayed the same, because manufacturing with high labor costs (like textiles) is being replaced by low labor cost manufacturing.
He never said jobs are not going overseas, he just said that we are still a producer. Our manuafturing sector is not employing as many as many as it once did but is still producing products.
“We’re not nearly as absent manufacturing jobs as people think. Now, we might have lost sectors. I’m having a mental block. Textiles, we mighta lost a lot of the textile industry and we probably don’t make many sewing machines anymore. But there are other things that have replaced them on the manufacturing scale, and we’re not a totally manufacturing-free economy. It’s just one of the many myths that are out there.”
Unskilled labor is cheap and that is why jobs went overseas. You can’t build a product here and pay employees $30 per hour when the same task can be accomplished for a dollar an hour in Asia. I know that much of our remaining manufacturing is done on high tech equipment but the older, more dangerous equipment we used 25+ years ago is likely being used today in Asia.