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Originally Posted by reccles44
Actually you are a little off on this. Major international corporations are building factories here while American corporations build factories over there. Japan for instance, Toyota, Honda, Panasonic, etc have build many major factories on US soil in the last decade avoiding places like Brazil, Vietnam and Bangladesh. These are the very places the US corps are building factories.
Interesting dynamic I know but we are not a manufacturless(???) nation and that will not happen. You are still almost as likely to find many products made in the USA as made anywhere else in the world unless you are talking consumer electronics. That is a whole different category.
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Actually, international companies are building ASSEMBLY plants here. They are not producing anything. The parts are made off shore, imported then assembled, mostly by robots, and then sold.
This country used to export automobiles, now we import them. We used to have millions of people employed in the aircraft industry, in Calif. alone. We used to export washing machines, lawn mowers, furniture, clothing, and enough food to feed many of the poorer nations.
Just look around your house, over 80% of the things you have bought, in the last 10 years, are imports. Hell, chances are the lumber used to build you house was imported, if the house was built recently. Check your closets, you'll be hard pressed to find clothing, shoes, or accessories made in the U.S.A. The same applies to you furniture, appliances, kitchen knives, dishes, everything. Just look.