On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sadly, a lot of the left leaning people on this list will blame the > decline in manufacturing on the 'big, bad corporations'. I am not > saying that they do not share in some of the blame...key word there is > 'some'. > > However, I think the blame also falls on others. Lets start with one > that I know will ruffle some feathers - unions. Unions demand more and > more of corporations, making it less and less profitable to continue > to do business here.
Every single union contract signed has two sets of signatures: the union and the corporation. The unions advocate for the workers, the corporation for the stock-holders. If the contracts are so bad that they are causing manufacturing to move offshore both sides are to blame. > Next, I blame everyone else. We all want the latest and greatest > goods, but we refuse to pay a lot of money for them. This also puts > corporations in a precarious position where they need to deliver > quality goods as cheaply as they can. That is not gonna happen in a > plant in America. I don't think "we refuse to pay a lot of money for them" is a true statement. Look at the number of people who are buying iPhones and iPad, which certainly aren't cheap. Lots of people bought Levis too, but that didn't stop them from moving their manufacturing offshore. > > Let's say that Johnny, you neighbor, cuts your lawn for $40 a week. > Would you continue to pay Johnny, just because he is your neighbor, > when Stevie, from across town, is willing to do the same job, or > better, for $5 a week? I would if Stevie was an illegal or I had to ship my lawn to Indonesia to get it cut. > > > > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Corporate America and the Chinese government don't want the public >> focused on this information, hence the huge disinformation campaign to >> blame the high unemployment rate on illegals and on failed stimulus. >> >> 1) The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since >> 2001. About 75 percent of those factories employed over 500 people >> when they were still in operation. >> >> 2) Dell Inc., one of Americas largest manufacturers of computers, has >> announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with an >> investment of over $100 billion over the next decade. >> >> 3) Dell has announced it will be closing its last large U.S. >> manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in November. >> Approximately 900 jobs will be lost. >> >> 4) In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. How many of >> them were manufactured inside the United States? Zero. >> >> 5) According to a new study conducted by the Economic Policy >> Institute, if the U.S. trade deficit with China continues to increase >> at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose over half a million >> jobs this year alone. >> >> 6) As of the end of July, the U.S. trade deficit with China had risen >> 18 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. >> >> 7) The United States has lost a total of about 5.5 million >> manufacturing jobs since October 2000. >> >> 8) According to Tax Notes, between 1999 and 2008 employment at the >> foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased an astounding 30 >> percent to 10.1 million. During that exact same time period, U.S. >> employment at American multinational corporations declined 8 percent >> to 21.1 million. >> >> 9) In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic >> output. In 2008, it represented 11.5 percent. >> >> 10) Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory >> that produces the Ford Ranger in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately >> 750 good-paying middle-class jobs are going to be lost because making >> Ford Rangers in Minnesota does not fit in with Fords new global >> manufacturing strategy. >> >> 11) As of the end of 2009, fewer than 12 million Americans worked in >> manufacturing. The last time fewer than 12 million Americans were >> employed in manufacturing was in 1941. >> >> 12) In the United States today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of >> GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is spent on services. >> >> 13) The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its >> manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. >> >> 14) In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per >> capita broadband Internet use. Today it ranks 15th. >> >> 15) Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually >> lower in 2010 than it was in 1975. >> >> 16) Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different >> products. Asia now produces 84 percent of them worldwide. >> >> 17) The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for >> every $1 that the Chinese spend on goods from the United States. >> >> 18) One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy >> will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2 >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328680 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
