Posted by s.crum on March 16, 2009 at 08:11:55 from (4.156.231.64):
In Reply to: O/T Recession posted by Ben Grimes on March 16, 2009 at 07:13:35:
Some manufacturing will eventually return here, but only to a degree and only when the offshore people demand the same incomes and living conditions that we enjoy, hence as expensive to make there as here. The enviromental aspects will finally catch up with them also. Another sad fact is alot of the 'old low tech' is quickly fading away or gone, and many people are 'just too good' for the old style thing called 'working at it'. I had looked into expanding my welding shop a few years ago, when I looked hard at what people were available and qualified, I backed away. Union wages and rules are a scary thing, if it's going to cost more than it makes, why bother? When you talk about getting some young guy in there to train they want to know where the keyboard and mouse are and if they can leave early Thursday and have Friday off. No sorry folks we've seen the end of industrial America as we know it. The new emergence if the goverment even allows it will be very different from what we know now. Back in the 80s I came to understand that American will not survive in a service economy, I'm not suprised at all that it took this long for others to wake up to that fact.
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