US manufacturing in decline

[ntdz]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: ntdz

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ntdz
Check the front page of Anandtech.com

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=25011

Corsair opens a new factory in Fremont, Ca. More manufactoring here in the USA [/q]

How can this be? This goes against the Republican ideal of shipping all jobs overseas.

You admitting this was a mistake???

I'm truly shocked :shocked:

I'm not for shipping jobs overseas, but then again I'm not afraid of change like liberals such as yourself. You don't even address the fact that a new plant was made here in the USA, you just go sarcastic acting as if I want all manufactoring jobs to move elsewhere.

P.S. Corsair "moved" to a bigger building and added one line (from five to six) (shut down the old factory). Didn't say that more people were hired, although I really hope that they did hire more. It's nice to see business expand in the US, or even better to move (back) to the US.

And now someone else will be using the old factory for something else...

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: ntdz
And now someone else will be using the old factory for something else...

Hopefully, but not always. I've seen many manufacturing plants turned into warehouses that house items made from Mexico for shipping points. My company has done it. Others have too.

 

[techs]

Wow. What a misleading thread.
The US produces twice as much in manufactured goods than China? We used to produce twice as much as the entire world. And we produce a huge amount of manufactured goods for our own exclusive use by the military.
One thing the opinion piece doesn't mention is we have been redefining what is "manufactured". Remember how the Bushies wanted to call working at McDonalds a manufacturing job (they "assemble" hamburgers).
And there is a blatantly misleading line that says the service sector jobs being created pays more in the fastest growing sectors.
I challenge you on this. The fastest growing sector is food service which pays far less and has fewer benefits than the manufacturing jobs they are replacing.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: techs
Wow. What a misleading thread.
The US produces twice as much in manufactured goods than China? We used to produce twice as much as the entire world. And we produce a huge amount of manufactured goods for our own exclusive use by the military.
One thing the opinion piece doesn't mention is we have been redefining what is "manufactured". Remember how the Bushies wanted to call working at McDonalds a manufacturing job (they "assemble" hamburgers).
And there is a blatantly misleading line that says the service sector jobs being created pays more in the fastest growing sectors.
I challenge you on this. The fastest growing sector is food service which pays far less and has fewer benefits than the manufacturing jobs they are replacing.

Wow, someone else remembers that the Dims started that whole "Move to a service based economy" mess!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: techs
Wow. What a misleading thread.
The US produces twice as much in manufactured goods than China? We used to produce twice as much as the entire world.

if you're looking at post ww2 data and determining that we were once 2x the rest of the world, i'd say you were starting with a very bad data point. the rest of the world's manufacturing had been completely devastated by the war. the 'arsenal of democracy' it was called. we were kings of the world by default.

but you can't keep smart people down.