Re: USA Industrial edge

Winchester1

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Vincennes, In
Many U.S. Corporations are/have found producing things overseas is not easy and profitable as it looked up front. All kinds of problems, security, high turnover of workforce, much more airfreight than planned (savings lost), quality issues, the list can go on and on.
Some people will just plain buy made in the U.S.A. An example is Henry firearms. My gunstore told me there is sometimes a six month wait for Henry Firearms.
 
The EPA has made some of the processes used in
tanning leather about impossible to do in the USA.
When working at the rendering plant we also
processed raw hides and marketed them. The only
hides we were selling in the US were for the Auto
Industry. Korea was our largest customer in about 5
years that changed- 90% of what we were selling was
to China.
 
I look for the "Made in USA" label on almost everything I buy. except food. Some things are just impossible to get made here anymore.
 
I thought "especially" food.

see where some people have died by eating silverbeet. E coli on it. makes you wonder what is safe.
 
And the pipe for the oil industry comes from China! Saw in an alumni magazine yesterday that a recent graduate works for a major railroad and coordinates shipments of pipe from China to the oil fields in ND and then coordinates using the same containers to ship grain out of ND.

America has lost a lot of different skills & production capabilities because the jobs were sent out of the country. Now they have the capability to produce a lot of things that we can no longer produce. Shame, shame on us!
 
Getting the oil out of the ground is an issue I think. The per barrel price has to be $90+ I think to make it profitable. Then there is distribution, supply lines, refineries....Red tape.
 
I've long maintained that the China thing is only temporary.

All we have to do is look at our own past. It wasn't that long ago that people worked in factories as virtual slaves, in dangerous conditions, for pitiful wages, right here in the good old USA.

People finally got fed up and demanded to be treated fairly. What makes you think the same thing won't happen in China?

China's business model can't be sustained, and I think we are seeing signs of that now.
 
some of the oil pipe lines out of western Canada run pretty close to the Baaken fields... so distribution might not be too much of an issue
 
One huge difference is we are a FREE and armed society, they are a communist unarmed society. Historically protesting in that situation doesn't turn out well for workers!
 

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