Ford closing Cleveland engine plant

[Bob_Young]

I like 5030's way with words....but not enough to shred my tractor for him

I've often wondered why our elected officials and civil "servants" in the regulatory agencies seem so determined to use each and every excuse to send American manufacturing the way of the Dodo bird. Are we being punished for something? Do they really think that earning a profit is immoral? Or is it productive work and economic activity that's immoral? Will they be content when we've reverted to an agrarian society or will we have to regress all the way back to hunter-gatherer? Are we seeking some sort of existential purity?

The answers elude me. Maybe if I understood, I could get on board with it.

On the surface it appears they want us to become serfs in a sort of feudal system run by bureaucrats. Why shouldn't these almighty regulators have to stand for election?....another mystery.
Bob

 

[Builder]

The politicians determined 30+ years ago to start regulating American industry off US soil to countries with less stringent regulations.

Then the unions, who started out with good intentions like keeping workers from working 18 hours/day or getting their arms chewed off by machinery, went too far. They began to control the companies more than the company's managment did.

That made the cost of doing business here in the US is higher than:

Building new plants overseas,
training a whole new staff of workers in another language, then
paying shipping costs to bring it all the way back to the USA.

Amazing we've "come so far", isn't it????