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From: bob urz on 21 Jan 2010 11:17
http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=236870

bob
From: Sansui Samari on 24 Jan 2010 06:52
On Jan 21, 8:17 am, bob urz <so...(a)inetnebr.com> wrote:
> http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=236870
>
> bob

Here was my reply....

The loss of a countries ability to manufacture it's own goods will
never be a win in my book. How could anyone possibly think that you
could have a stable economy of consumers buying products from other
economies, while working in low paying service based jobs. It's like a
pyramid scheme, on a grand scale. How does the money we put out come
back to our tables?
I've been working in manufacturing for most of 15 years now. The
same pattern has applied for almost every company I have worked for.
I join the ranks, move up to a stable position, then the company goes
out of business due to foreign competition. The same can be said for
other industries as well. The IT and software industries took a hit
for quite a while, when many companies moved their help desks and
development to India and the like. You keep hearing that we just need
more training and to go back to school and start over. New training
for what, working at the local Coffee shop for minimum wage.
Then there's the poor Chinese worker, they are victimized as much as
the consumer. The only hope, is that the standards, and cost of
living will even out. Then maybe it will be cost effective to
manufacture here again. Unfortunately, with millions held under
oppressive governments, this will probably never happen.

Squeezing 15 years of pent up anger into 2x8" of text is more
difficult than I had anticipated.

-J
From: William Sommerwerck on 24 Jan 2010 07:06
The loss of a country's ability to manufacture its own goods will
never be a win in my book. How could anyone possibly think that you
could have a stable economy of consumers buying products from other
economies, while working in low-paying service based jobs? It's like a
pyramid scheme, on a grand scale. How does the money we put out come
back to our tables?

I've been working in manufacturing for most of 15 years now. The
same pattern has applied for almost every company I have worked for.
I join the ranks, move up to a stable position, then the company goes
out of business due to foreign competition. The same can be said for
other industries as well. The IT and software industries took a hit
for quite a while, when many companies moved their help desks and
development to India and the like. You keep hearing that we just need
more training and to go back to school and start over. New training
for what, working at the local coffee shop for minimum wage?


Several years ago, one of the people in a UseNet group had me contact
Agilent (nee, HP) about improving the documentation for their test
equipment, which had come under a lot of criticism from their customers. Not
only were his managers reluctant to talk with me (he had to twist their
arms), but I was told that if Agilent thought improved documentation were
needed, the work would be outsourced to India.


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