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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
They took our jobs!
6 comments:
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USMC2841 said...
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You can learn a lot in the first 40 seconds. Automation is the key. Robots don't need doctors and don't draw a pension. Nonunion plants are staffed with about a quarter of the employees as union plants due to automation. Unions decided to become political entities constantly trying to add to their numbers rather than looking to control cost and thus better provide for their members. If the UAW had allowed the big three to use more automation they could have cut cost, kept US factories running and provided for their benefits during retirement. Also, by putting your suppliers in the same building you never hear "well we shipped it. It must be in transit". Henry Ford would be proud.
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12/14/10, 11:04 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I grew up with a lot of friends who had lifetime careers in a midwestern GM assembly plant. They would come home and brag on the weekends how much time they wasted during the week, how much overtime they soaked the company for and they would schedule their vacations well in advance of 'planned' strikes.
Now most of them are crying about their shrinking retirement plans, medical coverage and wondering why the 'country' abandoned them.
They still don't have a clue. -
12/14/10, 12:25 PM
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toadold said...
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While it is true that you can build a "dark" factory as did the Japanese that is they had a robot building factory that was "manned" by robots and people only went in about once a month so they left the lights out, the upside was that jobs relating to specialized maintenance, distribution of product, and etc. went up in the overall economy. With the downturn in manufacturing purchases a lot of the "dark" factories are shut down and jobs are lost.
Manufacturing won't make a comeback in the US unless tax bites on equipement and legacy liabilities go away to make it worthwhile for financial institutions to finance automated equiopment. -
12/14/10, 2:37 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Yes, USMC2841 and Anonymous above nailed it, as did everyone here right away. The reason Ford built that plant in Brazil is because the unions and US Government would never allow such a plant in the United States. The US no longer has any place for initiative or innovation. This is why we're losing. We don't have much time to turn this around before Obama and his ilk achieve their goal of hoping and changing this country into a third whirled nation.
GrinfilledCelt -
12/14/10, 2:42 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I work for a company that sells advanced technology to the auto industry. Five years ago when I started, our made in USA technology was installed in Detroit factories. Now our staff in the Detroit office travels to India to install our made in China hardware. Why?
- As all have pointed out, UAW make innovation too hard.
- U.S. taxes and total regulatory costs of doing business have driven our production off shore.
- at the low end, the U.S. labor market is conflicted with illegals working below minimum wage and a class of 'too proud to work' living on the dole: why put up with that when you can just import?
This is simple stuff to understand for people who live in the real world- too bad 70% of the people in the current White House have no private sector experience.
jr. -
12/14/10, 3:25 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Maybe if the uaw got a Brazilian, we'd all be better off.
Tom Mann -
12/14/10, 3:32 PM
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