Just curious…why do you have your LOCATION as Guildford England…but then you say you live in the States? I know what you mean…Now I’m starting to feel smarter…
How do you feel about people who voted for him ONLY because hes black?
Young Mr. Churchill, (assuming you are young as you have said,) lighten up on the creepy ice pick stuff.
Guildford is where I was born.
And TG, blame George Carlin… :lol: He’s so funny…
Which would have been a far smaller percentage than those that didn’t vote for him because he was black…
I think the downfall of all the automotive and also other medium and heavy US industries in the excesive mania to close down a factory in the US and open one in Mexico or other foreign country.
For example all the tools available in the supermarkets near my home (Wal-mart & Carrefour) are 95% made in China , despite the brand Snap-on and Stanley, both typically american firms.
A industrial job lost in the US is a person who have to live from a less payed job ( probably in the service area) and in that way he got less chances to adquire a new vehicle.
The US entrepeneurs should be more " patriotic" in my opinion.:rolleyes:
I agree in totto my friend. The sad truth is that the management of many large U.S. firms see only $$, and think in the short term. They do not care about how they make the money, or what will become of the places they close up. The corporation I retired from used pension fund $$ to bankroll building projects in Asian countries, (interest free loan) .Then when completed, they placed the money in the pension fund, and then said they could not compete with the global industry, and threatened to fill ch.11 bankruptcy. (this way, they could try to break their contracts with suppliers, and the unions, and shift production to their new Asian facilities, which legally, are separate from the parent U.S. business.) Such behavior is in my opinion, detrimental to the economy, and security of America.
They do not care about how they make the money, or what will become of the places they close up
Many people with socialist ideas take that examples as the downfall of the capitalism, but I dont see that as capitalism but cannibalism.
All that monetary maneouvres are ininteligible for the persons like me who are used to receive money as the result of their hard work. Of course seems that “hard work” is not a very popular between some north american CEOs.
I hate to disillusion you, my Yank mate, but this is just one more area where America has lost the lead. 
Down here, we’ve increasingly been exporting our jobs to the cheap labour (alright, labor :o) countries for the past thirty or so years. We can’t even manufacture a lot of our own basic needs. This, apparently, is regarded by our political and commercial leaders as a great national advantage for which the Australian populace should be grateful, despite us getting inferior products as a result 
All depends on what you’re actually doing. Some things will never be cheaper to make in the first world than in China/India, and hence there is never any point trying to retain them. Others (and the branch of Engineering I work in is one) cost the same no matter where in the world you make them. For the project I’m currently working on, the labour cost of assembling it is around 0.3% of the retail price. At that rate, you’re always going to make it in the place which gives you the highest quality because the savings from moving elsewhere are so tiny. It’s all down to automated machine tools, proper design for manufacture (the whole reason Toyota are such a successful company - while they are happy to talk all day about lean manufacture, that’s only perhaps 10% of the reason they can make things so well. Designing a product which can be manufactured cheaply is immensely harder, but if you can do it right the results are brilliant) and generally designing for low part count.
Windmills being one of those items. Some are predicting up to three million US manufacturing jobs to build the wind power generation that America sorely lacks…
Maybe. You´ll have to work at it to be sure however - a lot of the work involved at the moment is very human intensive, composite layup. There are machines which can do it, but until you start using them you won´t be competitive.
There is a point to trying to retain them for defence purposes.
If Australia went to war with China, we wouldn’t be able to produce most of our own clothing and footwear, not to mention lacking a lot of potential defence-related industrial capacity we’ve lost to China and other low cost countries.
It’s doubly disappointing that Australian governments and businesses have forgotten that in many respects we were in a better position at the start of WWII. A painful lesson we learnt during that conflict was the need for industries which gave us some degree of defence industry self-sufficiency. Shortly after the war, we embarked on a course to achieve that. The quest for low production costs over the past few decades has wiped out a lot that was achieved in the preceding three.
Um, If USA fails due to GM then thats too bad. Canada will survive though cause we have FREE Healthcare, a great welfare and unemployment program and we are not going down the dumps as fast as America in case you haven’t noticed. Canada is far better off than America for now.We aren’t bailing out our banks like Bush is doing. We have new hyundai and Honda plants openeing every year, employing Canadians. If GM fails, sure we will suffer but not to the extent that America will. So don’t piss on me.:army:
Is belligerent Canadian nationalism your new troll angle?
Firstly, I was referring to how many GM manufacturing plants are located in Canada. The US will not “fail” if GM does, and it is still arguable that GM can actually fail as they still have a lot of assets, are not even readying themselves to go into bankruptcy, and they will probably survive in some form…
Incidentally, the US ALSO has a lot of Hyundai-Kia, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, etc production facilities. In fact, some of the biggest anti-bailout partisans are in southern states with these very companies in them…
Ontario WILL suffer if GM were to fail completely and your economy is entirely dependent on ours as the US and Canada are still the largest trading partners…and Canada is also in a full recession.
I watch the Canadian news too!
Gasp
Hush down Herman! He’ll know of all our evil plans!
You’d better hope not.
The last time the Canucks went feral they burnt down the White House.
HA!! They burned my home city after we burned Hermy’s current abode…
Thats okay,the current target package: Beta India-12 contains many of Canada’s major resources, underground Moosehead cisterns, Bacon mines,and the strip club bunkers.
Did you mean to say bacon?