Posted on 02/09/2011 1:09:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
America is on its way to becoming the world's first truly post-industrial nation. Factory jobs have been shed by the thousands and cities that once relied on industry have been shattered.
Of course this trend has been going on for the past forty years or so. Only recently it has been getting worse.
Click here to see the biggest American factory closings of the past 2 years
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November 2008: DHL closes its Wilmington, Oh. distribution facility
December 2008: General Motors closes Janesville, Wisc. Plant
May 2009: Pilgrim’s Pride Foods closes Farmerville, Louisiana facility
September 2009: General Motors shuts down Pontiac, Mich. plant
November 2009: International Paper closes Franklin, Virginia mill
April 2010: Morell & Co. closes Sioux City, Iowa processing plant
April 2010: Toyota closes NUMMI factory in Fremont, CA
June 2010: Whirlpool Closes its Evansville, Ind. factory
July 2010: Chrysler shutters Twinsburg, Oh. plant
November 2010: Dell shuts down factory in Winston-Salem, NC
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2 GM, 1 Chrysler, & 1 associated w/ the attempted destruction of Toyota by Obama. hmmmm...
The Red Chinese already own the teeth in our heads. We make nothing. We are a debtor nation. Our people grow more ignorant by the day. Liberals have caused this wreck. Its time for a revolution to throw the corrupt tyrants out and start over.
Escaping Obama
“We make nothing”
Speak for yourself. I make products valued around the world, and America is the #1 source for the intellectual innovation to which I contribute.
Wonder how many of these factories were driven to death by Big Union?
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Good thing the government is keeping people employed.
Didn’t Hershey’s Chocolate outsource in the past two years?
My memory isn’t what it used to be but if that is true, there is very little MORE iconic than a Hershey’s bar...
This is all BS. Rush said today that we are still the manufacturing king of the world.
What you are seeing are the benefits of mechanization, automation, computerization and robotics.
When you pile all that stuff up and figure out how to have machines make it for you human employment opportunities drop. At the same time the stuff becomes less costly.
I've done some of the toughest sort of factory jobs you could imagine ~ and the only thing rougher would be some of the jobs in steel-mills.
I am happy to tell you that almost every job I ever had is now done by a machine, or abroad ~ my kids won't have to risk life and limb doing any of that stuff. They can be businessmen and artists, musicians and surfers ~ whatever.
As a percentage of total global manufacturing, it's true that no other single country has as large of market-share as we do, around 20-21%. But, that percentage has steadily fallen since the 1970s.
And, if you measure total Industrial Sector output, the US is now behind China, the EU in Purchasing Power Parity GDP, and trails the EU but leads China in Nominal Value GDP.
So, as you can see. It's a little more complicated than Rush would apparently lead people to believe. The trends are clear, and they are obvious. In the very foreseeable future, we will cede our leadership position entirely to either the EU or to China.
Other countries grow and own all the chocolate. They ship it to us to do the hard part ~ separating it, blending it, mixing it, pouring it into slabs, then packaging it. We ship it out.
Farrah does that with pants. American cloth is spun by machines then shipped to Mexico where they laboriously craft trousers for fat ladies, and then it's shipped back to the US for the easy part ~ selling them in stores!
What the Mexicans and Africans do to us when it comes to the chocolate cycle is what we do to Mexicans and Africans when it comes to trousers.
It's actually quite abusive!
To the barricades eh!
No idea...
DHL Express :
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge has ruled that DHL Express of Wilmington, OH, is guilty of the unfair labor practice charges lodged against the global-delivery company by the APWU late last year.
General Motors closes Janesville:
“This has absolutely nothing to do with there being an issue about union and management not getting along. We’ve worked together, and management hates to see this just as much as the union does.”
Pilgrim’s Pride Foods:
Apparently non-union
General Motors shuts down Pontiac, Mich:
UAW shop.
International Paper closes Franklin:
Carroll Story, the president of the United Steelworkers local that represents the workers, said: “Right now, everyone is in a hole. They’re in a daze, a dream. They’re like, ‘What happened?’ “
Morell & Co. closes Sioux City:
The company will confer with union officials regarding this transition.
Toyota closes NUMMI factory in Fremont:
It is Toyota’s only UAW-represented work force.
Whirlpool Closes its Evansville:
The “Shame on Whirlpool” campaign is going strong, with CWA, IUE-CWA and AFL-CIO activists pressing the company not to close its Evansville, Ind., refrigerator plant
Chrysler shutters Twinsburg:
For years, the union seemed to have the upper hand at Twinsburg and other auto plants. The UAW was determined to maintain the wages and benefits
Dell shuts down factory in Winston-Salem:
Apparently non-union
Hersey’s Chocolate, along with Mom’s Cookies and See’s Candies have ALL moved out of the USA.
This is because the US/Florida Sugar Lobby has ensured that the price for sugar in the USA is artificially higher than what the market would support.
As such candy companies whose main ingredient was is and will remain SUGAR, had two choices.... continue to pay way too much for sugar, or move.
Economically that isn’t much of a choice.
We are the world's low cost producer when it comes to the cutting edge items ~ which means our stuff, with ten times the quality, gets sold at 1/2 the price.
The result is it looks like our percentage of product value has slipped ~ but you can imagine what happens to the less productive competitors when they try to build the same things.
There's really no good way to deal with this phenomenon ~ some foreigners view it as the US just exporting inflation ~
Think of it this way ~ the owners of all that chocolate (grown only in Tropical Countries) are pulling the jobs back home.
If they were building aircraft transponder systems (or the parts for such systems), and we owned all the airplanes, we could pull those jobs back here ~ alas, they are not building those systems are they.
Bwahahahahahaha!
Leave me out of this.
There's no tariff on candy, just on sugar.
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