I am reading a lot of "I'm sad to see them go, sad, sad, sad"
Well, I am sad too. I am sad that Schwinn went from making over 1,000,000 bikes per year in the 1970's to shutting down their USA factories and shipping all the work to Taiwan and China. I am sad for every American manufacturing job that is lost every day.
I know that there are forum members from other countries besides the USA, and I say to everyone' "protect your country's manufacturing jobs. Buy locally made products".
Let me tell you people, I am on the front line and can assure you that manufacturing jobs are making a mass-exodus like no other time in USA history. USA based manufacturing has been slowely trickling overseas, but it is a river now.
Manufacturing is the base of a nation's true wealth. Once the manufacturing jobs are gone, the economy will be based solely on consumerism - and that is frightening.
Don't worry, though, the economists tell us that the USA economy can be service based. Get yer burger flippers ready for your new career, folks. Sell bugers to the unemployed.
Last edited by mike; 08-06-02 at 09:38 PM.