Machine shops disappearing, anyone else noticed

[Ryan Moon]

OH! IT's just progress to one happy world economy!  With one happy 
government, one happy religion, one happy government approved car, one 
happy race- the human race!

Geeee sometimes I scare myself
On May 8, 2005, at 7:31 PM, TWFAUST at aol.com wrote:

> I need to get a bushing pressed tomorrow and just realized that we are 
> down
> to one "job shop" machine shop in the area. I think I mentioned the 
> decline of
> manufacturing in a recent post. I guess one thing leads to another. I 
> suppose
> I could find a garage with a hydraulic press, but I find the trend 
> disturbing.
> I recall that a local Home Depot "Associate" is an out of work nuclear
> welder, Delta tools are now made in Taiwan, IBM's PC operation has 
> been sold to the
> Chinese. Scary. I had best perfect autarky, or, I'm going to be in 
> trouble.
>
> Tom Faust
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