Hell i applaud DeWalt for bringing some kind of power tool manufacturing back home where it belongs. Because they are making more of this effort when compared to ANY other power tool company out there, i gave them my support by purchasing my new screw gun & impact driver from this line. Even if made with global parts(& they make that clearly known), these tools have more USA involvement in their creation than anything else currently available. If you can get behind them on this YOU are a big part of why this is an issue to begin with !
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If you want to know more about US manufacturing read up. The fact is, we manufacture waaaay more than China. As a nation we struggle with skilled labor but things are looking up.
Throughout the 1980's I saw my father lose his job over and over again. He went from maintenance to plant manager to cutting trees just to make the mortgage. I was very hesitant to go into manufacturing nearly 15 years ago based on the devastation that I'd seen growing up. I've been highly trained and at the same factory all these years. Went from $8/hour to more than 3x that before built in overtime and benefits.
Manufacturing will continue and it only looks to be getting better. We don't want to make products that have crappy profit margins and that's why you don't see a lot of consumer electronic goods and other products that we've seen being made in China and elsewhere. Our manufacturing is in industry, defense, food etc...
Cheer up guys! We may be forced to buy foreign made electronics for now, but as time goes by it's entirely possible that we'll see even low profit margin goods being manufactured here.
I respect all of you guys grinding it out every day to provide us with quality products. It may not have an enormous impact on the GNP, but it's critical regardless and is representative of the American dream.
Read this. It's slightly outdated. A lot of the information is still relevant, but the great news is that we contribute far far more (I think something over 3 trillion dollars annually) than is stated in the article.
www.nbcnews.com/id/41349653/ns/busi...spite-chinas-might-us-factories-maintain-edge
Bravo America!
Throughout the 1980's I saw my father lose his job over and over again. He went from maintenance to plant manager to cutting trees just to make the mortgage. I was very hesitant to go into manufacturing nearly 15 years ago based on the devastation that I'd seen growing up. I've been highly trained and at the same factory all these years. Went from $8/hour to more than 3x that before built in overtime and benefits.
Manufacturing will continue and it only looks to be getting better. We don't want to make products that have crappy profit margins and that's why you don't see a lot of consumer electronic goods and other products that we've seen being made in China and elsewhere. Our manufacturing is in industry, defense, food etc...
Cheer up guys! We may be forced to buy foreign made electronics for now, but as time goes by it's entirely possible that we'll see even low profit margin goods being manufactured here.
I respect all of you guys grinding it out every day to provide us with quality products. It may not have an enormous impact on the GNP, but it's critical regardless and is representative of the American dream.
Read this. It's slightly outdated. A lot of the information is still relevant, but the great news is that we contribute far far more (I think something over 3 trillion dollars annually) than is stated in the article.
www.nbcnews.com/id/41349653/ns/busi...spite-chinas-might-us-factories-maintain-edge
Bravo America!