Craftsman now mostly made in China. Bummer.

[CHANMADD]

Originally Posted by G-Pete

Sorry, this statement is not correct. I'm on the financial and manufacturing side on a automotive aftermarket accessory Manufacture here in the US.
Here is experience first hand speaking and not some internet block opinion.

You CAN manufacture and produce competitively in the US, is is just a matter of how.
Even before Kaizen came, lean manufacturing was a part of my German Engineering degree.

The company which hired me in 1999 had no own manufacturing. As of today our manufacturing spans over 73000 square foot and have 47 full time workers. Over the 2008-2010 down turn we cut back on hours to 32hrs/week for 6 weeks in the summer, but did not cut people. O

I proved for over 13 years now - competitive manufacturing, even in economic downturns is possible.

Just lately we've been asked by one of our competitors to quote out some of their grille guards - because their Chinese ones are late and have bad quality.

The main reason hindering American manufacturing is ---

GREED --- period!

I too have never seen so many good potential business ventures scuppered by the absolute greed of individuals. Where is the compassion for our fellow man????....

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by CHANMADD

Where is the compassion for our fellow man????....

Why shouldn't that compassion extend to overseas workers? Why does it have to stop at our borders? Like it or not, we are in a global economy, and performance, salaries, and standards of living must be judged on a global basis, not just be limited to US standards.

[G-Pete]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Why shouldn't that compassion extend to overseas workers? Why does it have to stop at our borders? Like it or not, we are in a global economy, and performance, salaries, and standards of living must be judged on a global basis, not just be limited to US standards.

Then they need to step up to our standards and stop sending very dangerous trash our way.

The USA did pretty good for 175 years until it got more and more involved to "help" the rest of the world and shifted towards """"global economy""" the result is just a chain reaction in negative influences. Any bank outside the US can and did by stocks and the European banks played a giant role in the housing collapse.

Without their money that house of cards had never risen that large.

The US need to look more to the inside than to the outside. Any $US spent in the east is to a high degree used to buy weapons. All these guys over there are not friendly to us - they never reached out and helped us in any way or shape.

Judged on global basis, global economy - workers united....
That's all socialism propaganda words.

Global?
Ask, Greece - France - Russia - Serbia - Ukraine - Poland - Slovakia - Armenia - Romania - et cetera et cetera how well that socialism work/worked for them - - global hehehe

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by G-Pete

Then they need to step up to our standards and stop sending very dangerous trash our way.

I'm preaching to the choir with you, but from a labor standpoint, domestic workers must be prepared to compete on the same plateau as foreign workers, or management will continue to move jobs overseas. It's as simple as that. We can't have assembly line workers making 75 grand with defined benefits pension plans anymore. It just can't continue to happen in our global economy or even the finest quality products will be made outside the US. You know that; I know you do.

[Richard Hudgins]

[lippy]

Originally Posted by Richard Hudgins

Very funny.