Read about it somewhere a while back.

As much as we'd like to bring back the manufacturing back to US, there's a reason most companies consider China as default choice: the infrastructure is not here anymore and it is there in a big way.

Industrial parks are chock full of suppliers of everything imaginable. There's a guy across the street that will get your plastic molding figured out and mass produced in days. There's another one minutes away that will design/build your custom screws . And on and on, including having supplies of every metal, plastic and rubber needed to make darn near anything.

Waking up a dorm in a middle of a nite and getting 10,000 workers to assy floor at 2am in the morning to meet Apple's deadline (cause a truck carrying the long delayed parts has just arrived) is not doable in the States and is absolutely a norm in China.

Much anger was expended over SF awarding the bridge manufacturing to China, but we simply don't have the metal works that are big enough here in US. No one will finance building one just for this one timer deal.

As a nation, we wuz firmly on a path of shedding them boring and low paying manufacturing skills and turning into nation of financial advisers and real estate agents - that wuz the pipe dream sold to us. We all bought into, hook & sinker.

Reminds me, a bit, about irrational exuberance of 1990's in USSR - we felt that shedding communism, dissolving the Union and embracing the free market cut throat Milton Freedman BS will get us rich & prosperous overnite ... well, payback is you know what. 20+ years later ppl still dont know what hit em. But I digress.

Stopping short of all-out war production effort of 1939-44, I am afraid there is no ez solutions to jump starting the manufacturing in good ole US of A.


Not all is lost. I am still hoping for "socially-responsible" behavior of companies helping us out of this ditch. For example, Microsoft could take a stand on Surface devices: it has to be made in the States. They certainly have the coffers big enough for it. It will be painful - to secure facilities, workforce, materiel etc . But then they'd have a hell of public support.. I, for one , will vote with my bux.

Like I did when I bought American-made Passat few months ago. Laughing all the way to the bank with 50MPG hwy and also knowing some of my money went to folx in Chattanooga TN.

The USA could do that, and more. If we weren't under hostile regulations.
I'm hoping for socially responsible behaviour out of Washington, DC.

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Read about it somewhere a while back.

As much as we'd like to bring back the manufacturing back to US, there's a
reason most companies consider China as default choice: the infrastructure
is not here anymore and it is there in a big way.

Industrial parks are chock full of suppliers of everything imaginable.
There's a guy across the street that will get your plastic molding figured
out and mass produced in days. There's another one minutes away that will
design/build your custom screws . And on and on, including having supplies
of every metal, plastic and rubber needed to make darn near anything.

Waking up a dorm in a middle of a nite and getting 10,000 workers to assy
floor at 2am in the morning to meet Apple's deadline (cause a truck carrying
the long delayed parts has just arrived) is not doable in the States and is
absolutely a norm in China.

Much anger was expended over SF awarding the bridge manufacturing to China,
but we simply don't have the metal works that are big enough here in US. No
one will finance building one just for this one timer deal.

As a nation, we wuz firmly on a path of shedding them boring and low paying
manufacturing skills and turning into nation of financial advisers and real
estate agents - that wuz the pipe dream sold to us. We all bought into, hook
& sinker.

Reminds me, a bit, about irrational exuberance of 1990's in USSR - we felt
that shedding communism, dissolving the Union and embracing the free market
cut throat Milton Freedman BS will get us rich & prosperous overnite ...
well, payback is you know what. 20+ years later ppl still dont know what hit
em. But I digress.

Stopping short of all-out war production effort of 1939-44, I am afraid
there is no ez solutions to jump starting the manufacturing in good ole US
of A.


Not all is lost. I am still hoping for "socially-responsible" behavior of
companies helping us out of this ditch. For example, Microsoft could take a
stand on Surface devices: it has to be made in the States. They certainly
have the coffers big enough for it. It will be painful - to secure
facilities, workforce, materiel etc . But then they'd have a hell of public
support. I, for one , will vote with my bux.

Like I did when I bought American-made Passat few months ago. Laughing all
the way to the bank with 50MPG hwy and also knowing some of my money went to
folx in Chattanooga TN.