Re: Is anything still made in the USA???

Posted by Irv on January 26, 2005 at 22:18:35 from (198.208.159.14):

In Reply to: Re: Is anything still made in the USA??? posted by Davis In SC on January 26, 2005 at 20:57:43:

Davis, yeah I believe that. I am a toll & diemaker, and I used to work in some shops here in Detroit. I went into GM about 25 years ago, and it is lucky I did. None of the companies I worked for are still in business. At one time there were thousands of companies in this area. Most are now gone. Ingersoll Milling machine company, once the largest machine co. in the world, went bust, layed off thousands of employees and was bought out by a Chinese co. One of thier engineers (1 of 80 left from 3000+ ) told me that they get thier machines built in china for 30 cents on the dollar - including shipping. There is no competeing with that. Game over. If American workers worked for free, the bill for toilet paper in the plant would exceed the chinese labor costs. And it only just starting! The big hits are still to come. I hear that heavy equipment is an industry they are tageting next, construction stuff. Where I work, most of our machine tools are made in Japan. I believe Chinese machines are coming, if we stay in business at all. Irv

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