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Have manufacturing jobs have vanished to China, Mexico and South Korea?
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 963622" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>KL,</p><p></p><p>You are correct. I did misread that the US was producing "Twice" what it did in the early 1970's. However, my point was more about measuring production in $$$s is that it may not be the best way to accurately define improvement. Consider that we have improved by $1 Trillion in 40 years, yet we are ranked sixth, and only have 20% of the market. I think it would be beneficial to know, What was are standing in the world in 1970, and what percentage of the market did we have then?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I also got my mind and my fingers crossed when I meant to say that "US rank 6th behind France" but better than GB, Italy and Brazil?..but beating Brazil is not saying much. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If the article had given the US ranking and percentage prior to the early 1970's we might have a better perspective as to how much we have fallen, and how much we have gotten back, and further we have to go to get back to where we were. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I also am not completely convinced that mining $$$ should be considered part of the manufacturing $$$, and and feel even less convinced that Utilites $$$ should be included as part of the manufacturing $$$. I wonder if the Mining and Utilities $$$ were included in the early 1970's manufacturing $$$ ? That was not mentioned in the article, so I am a bit suspicous that we may not be comparing apples to apples?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, I agreed with most of what the article says, I just think it's a little premature to be doing victory dances or to imply that we have reached the Manufacturing Giant status that we once were. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 963622, member: 52972"] KL, You are correct. I did misread that the US was producing "Twice" what it did in the early 1970's. However, my point was more about measuring production in $$$s is that it may not be the best way to accurately define improvement. Consider that we have improved by $1 Trillion in 40 years, yet we are ranked sixth, and only have 20% of the market. I think it would be beneficial to know, What was are standing in the world in 1970, and what percentage of the market did we have then? I also got my mind and my fingers crossed when I meant to say that "US rank 6th behind France" but better than GB, Italy and Brazil?..but beating Brazil is not saying much. If the article had given the US ranking and percentage prior to the early 1970's we might have a better perspective as to how much we have fallen, and how much we have gotten back, and further we have to go to get back to where we were. I also am not completely convinced that mining $$$ should be considered part of the manufacturing $$$, and and feel even less convinced that Utilites $$$ should be included as part of the manufacturing $$$. I wonder if the Mining and Utilities $$$ were included in the early 1970's manufacturing $$$ ? That was not mentioned in the article, so I am a bit suspicous that we may not be comparing apples to apples? Again, I agreed with most of what the article says, I just think it's a little premature to be doing victory dances or to imply that we have reached the Manufacturing Giant status that we once were. ...Rich [/QUOTE]
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