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They will blame him for everything. The libs are a creative bunch, and they will find a way.

The Wall Street Journal has made a slight error in that story. What "production" jobs are coming back to America? Textiles aren`t made here, we sold almost every bit of machinery and what is left is so outdated that it could never be used profitably, like our steel mills. Automobiles are made from parts shipped in from just about everywhere because we still can`t compete against fifty cent an hour foreign labor. Most factories would need expensive renovation to get them up and running, costing more than the extra cost of fuel would be. How about food, which still has to be shipped from where it`s grown to where it is packaged, unless you count the illegal immigrants who planted, cultivated and harvested it as American production jobs. There are very damn few jobs that are coming back to America because of fuel costs. With the housing industry being stagnated you need to compute the number of construction jobs that were lost, car sales are down, more jobs lost, then add the number of jobs lost in financial institutions because of these two industries being slowed down. Add all three of these groups of idle people together and let them know when those jobs from overseas are coming because of high fuel costs. They probably would like to know when these great jobs are coming, by the way, do you want fries with that?

Prove me wrong, I stand by what I wrote. I wish jobs were coming back to America, but that just isn`t going to happen unless you`re talking about minimum wage jobs that wouldn`t support a family unless you worked two full-time jobs. We gutted our steel mills and sent them to China and Japan. We sold our textile industry to Asain countries during the late fifties or early sixties. We complacently watched Toyota take over as THE major automobile manufacturer in the world, a company with less than 75% of the capability that Ford or General Motors has, because we didn`t worry about tomorrow, instead of innovation we sold more chrome. Show me one industry involved in production that pays a living wage and is relocating from overseas to America. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnels.

Toyoto has moved the production of cars and trucks sold in the US to the US so has Honda. The WSJ states that furnture Mfg is coming back. I understand that Both Levi and VF are opening washing plants in the US,

The company I retired from which own's the one I started setup a seperate company just to bring in imported furnture because of the large number of accounts on the domistic side having switch production to asia mainly Vietnam. Sauder I believe is a canadian firm. I know they have a plant in canada because we have handled some of there distribution. Just here is STL Falcon sold and moved its production to asia Now under a different name.Ashley the largest producer of furniture and seller has all production in asia. They bring in about 1400 containers a week. We are still trying to get that business. Could it be that the car mfg's that moved here had great planning. I am sure that they took transportation cost into account when they picked there location. We bid on some of Honda's transportation. Washing plants or part of the production cycle. One of the examples the WSJ gave was a company that produces heaters.

When it comes to energy: does anyone remember President Bush's energy bill that the Democratics blocked in his first term??? Had it passed we would now have a couple of neclear plants,crude from Anwar,and,tax breaks for research and developement of alternative energy sources. Perhaps we would be less dependent on mid-east oil. At the very least we would have a 6 year start on solveing the problem.