ken hirsch writes:
> >Too late for what?  The United States is the largest manufacturer in the
> >world and the largest exporter of manufactured goods.  Even after the
> recent
> >recession, total output is still more than 35% larger than it was ten
years
> >ago, a healthy growth rate.

to which michael baier replies:
> Really !!!!
> Everytime I look at a label or a box it reads
> "Made in China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India" or somewhere in South America.
> Even Harley-Davidson has many parts from the far east.
> Opened a box with a "US-made firewall". Most parts were labeled "made in
> china".
>
> I read those statistics too, but can hardly find the goods that are made
in
> the US anymore.
>
> Where do I have to look?


I'm going to make a guess.  You have to look in the boxes being opened by
all the people in the countries to which we send our exports.  :)

I don't have the statistics to back this, but it may be that the items we
manufacture and export are the components from which some of our own
products are assembled in another country.  It may also be that they go
somewhere else and never make it back here.  Or it may be that they're sold
at WalMart, a firm that is very big on the stamp "Made In America".

If we're making them, they must be someplace; and I think we would have
heard about it before now if nobody in manufacturing were actually working.

Rs~

Russ Smith
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