"Prometheus" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:08:28 -0400, "Eric Anderson"
wrote:

I agree with what you are all saying here. I am so thankful that my son
is
working for a company making war machines right now because that is all
that
I see that is safe in the US manufacturing area. I went to Sam's club
today
and wondered around looking at where the products were made. Almost
everything I saw with any real manufacturing content (except washers,
dryers
and some tools) were made in China. Scares the heck out of me.

People like Rush Limbaugh seem to believe that we have always found a way
to
compete in the past. I am looking for someone to tell me how except for
a
very few areas (like high tech war machines).

Industrial grade equipment (excluding forklifts, for the most part)
almost always has a made in the USA tag on it, as far as I've seen in
any factory around here. I can't imagine using a brake press that was
made in China out of plastic and tin. Maybe it is all dying out, but
it really doesn't seem like it on the production floor.

You mean all that American industrial equipment like Okuma, Hitachi Seiki,
Mazak, Mori Seiki, Komatsu, Matsuura, Karaki ect? Yep, use that stuff daily.
How about that English made Bridgeport?