Doug Henwood wrote:
Leigh Meyers wrote:
(Is anything else actually manufactured in this country anymore?)
Yes. About $4.3 trillion worth of material in 2004, in fact
<http://bea.gov/bea/industry/gpotables/gpo_action.cfm?anon=277&table_id=14101&format_type=0>.
Yes, there IT is.
12 - Manufacturing 4,311.6
But just for example, how much of this is really paid into the
electro-mechanical creation of the product, and how much is paid to
someone in an office?
19 - Computer and electronic products 392.7
Can we say that HP builds those computers here? In The good ol' US of A?
or is it jobbbed out to Kyocera or some offshore corporation.
What WOULD America do with all that Trichloroeathane waste?
I would imagine that Singapore, Malaysia or China have a more ' shop
floor' oriented definition of what's 'manufacturing' and what's...
'overhead'.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
