"Prometheus" wrote in message

All right, I'll give you Mazak and Bridgeport. Honestly, though- I've
never seen the others around here, with the exception of forklifts.

If you have an industry that does much machining, they are around. The
Japanese dominate the CNC machine tool market and have for many years. You
do see a fair amount of Haas and Fadal (American made) though those are sold
to the type of people that shop at Harbor Freight. Pretty low quality
machines but they are cheap.

This is probably a case where I should open my mouth and insert foot.
It just seems like in a lot of cases where I'm at people are only
unemployed because they don't want to work, and I have a hard time
trusting anything the media tells me anymore.

I tend to agree with you there.