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As the price of fuel goes up the cost of shipping does also. Because of that production jobs are being brought back to the US. ( as reported in the WSJ) Since the Dem's blame Bush for the loss of jobs to overseas production who will they blame for bring them back?
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jimbobbob read my blog
Jun 15, 2008 | 5:33 PM

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

Chickenkiller read my blog
Jun 15, 2008 | 9:11 PM

Here's the blame - they're bringing back all the "smokestack - non-green" manufacturing to dirty our air, water and make people less reliant on government.

Weird read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 8:19 PM

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 Textiles aren`t made here, we sold almost every bit of machinery and what is left is so outdated that it could never be used profitably, like our steel mills.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?

jsage read my blog
Jun 16, 2008 | 9:24 PM

Weird I am glad your sources are greater then the WSJ.

Weird read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 10:24 PM

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.

Weird read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 10:24 PM

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.

jsage read my blog
Jun 17, 2008 | 7:34 AM

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,

Weird read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 9:11 AM

Toyota, Honda and Hyundai have all had manufacturing plants here for years, the high cost of fuel had nothing to do with that. Now Hyundai is opening a new 640 acre facility in West Point, Georgia to manufacture Kias. That plan was in the works for at least three years. Ford has moved more and more of it`s manufacturing jobs outside the United States and continues to do so. Furniture manufacturing never left the United States, what are you talking about? The largest manufacturer of particle board furniture sold in the US is Sauder, a domestic company. Washing plants could never be called PRODUCTION facilities, as you claim the WSJ promises are returning because of high fuel costs. What you fail to see is that outr energy costs are just now heading to the stratosphere, Foreign countries have had these costs since WW2 and lived with them. Look at the cost of gasoline in Europe. Tell us exactly WHAT LIVING WAGE PRODUCTION JOBS ARE BEING TRANSFERRED TO THE UNITED STSTES because of high fuel costs.

jsage read my blog
Jun 17, 2008 | 9:51 AM

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.

kdubken read my blog
Jun 22, 2008 | 10:09 AM

More American jobs are created from overseas than are lost overseas. Has allways been that way.

kdubken read my blog
Jun 22, 2008 | 10:29 AM

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.

kdubken read my blog
Jun 22, 2008 | 10:32 AM

More American jobs are created from overseas than are lost overseas. Has allways been that way.

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