"DeepDiver" wrote in message
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"Dan" wrote:
Of note: the lack of any safety equipment... OSHA would have
an heart attack!


OSHA is one of the reasons why that factory is in China and not in
America.

I'm not suggesting that worker safety should be ignored, but OSHA has
become
one of the many bloated self-serving government bureaucracies that has
contributed to forcing manufacturing overseas. I'm sure many of you are
familiar with the MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet). Did you know that
OSHA
even has an MSDS for saline eye wash solution (pure water with a little
bit
of salt added)? I came across that little gem when working in the Navy: I
couldn't believe it when I saw it. It wouldn't surprise me if there was an
MSDS for distilled water.

OSHA and EPA regulations combined amount to around 8% of manufacturing cost
in the US. The wage differential between high-quality workers in China and
high-quality workers in the US runs around 96%.

So you have an 8% solution here to a 96% problem.



Lawyers, bureaucrats, and socialists will be the death of this nation.

If anything kills manufacturing in the US, it will be doctrinaire,
conservative free-trade economics.

Ed Huntress