Greg I don't know what got your under wear in a bunch. I just stated the reason many industries are no longer in the US is the difference in the Government regulations. China has almost zero regulations and we have way too many regulations.
We have stopped using any common sense in the rules we have. I don't want anyone hurt by what is being done but the way things are today is just crazy.
Here is an example:
We have trucks going in and out of ADM plants all of the time. I watched an ADM employee get chewed out for not having fall protection on and his line tied off when he was drilling a hole while on a step ladder. This sounds fine until you know what the height he was at. TWO FEET. That is correct. HE was on the second step up from the bottom of a six foot step ladder. This is from an on site OSHA inspector.
So the guy goes and gets his fall protection harness and ties it off right above his ladder. The real funny thing??? Most fall protection harness have slack in the line so they can slowly stop you. He was two feet off the ground. His fall protection had four feet of slack. That is right he could have laid down on the ground and the harness would not have done anything but the OSHA inspector was happy.
Here is another Gem from the US OSHA rules.
A good friend has a steel fabrication business. They mainly build hog confinement equipment. You know gates and feeders, that type of stuff. He has three big hydraulic bending presses. He had them all hard wired in with conduit out the back over to the wall which they are setting close too. He got fined because they where not wired from over head. You can't wire them from over head. They set in a twenty foot tall ceiling that has an over head crane that travels the length of the building.
The OSHA inspector's solution to the problem. Wire each machine with a soft cord and have it lay on the floor and that gets plugged into the wall. I am not joking. He had showed me the write up and the fine.
They now cut the cords about one each week by running over them with the fork trucks but the OSHA guy is happy and that is all that counts. Never did get a reason for them not liking the way they had been wired. He just got fined. I don't remember the exact amount because they wrote him up on several things. The others where to do with ventilation issues around the welders. Those at least made sense.
Here is another one:
This one was at the JD dealership where I used to work at. The building was built in the early to mid 1970s. The electric plugs in the walls all where installed with the ground terminal down. That is how they always used to be done. Now they want the ground terminal up. The reason is that if something hits the plug and pulls it half way out it hit the ground not a hot. Those plugs turned the wrong way cost the dealer $3500 bucks in fines. This was in 2008. The building was thirty years old. I could have seen a warning to correct them but no they got fined.
So I am telling you the list could go on and on. I am all for safety but some common sense needs to go with it. Plus you can be OK with one inspector and the next one will write you up for things the first told you to do. I have seen it happen.
So the wage differences is only part of the problem.
As far as tariffs, I am all for them in a reasonable manner. We had them until after WW II. We do need to protect our standard of living. World wide trade only works if we have a world wide standard of living.
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