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As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline.

While it once cost $3,000 to ship a container from a city like Shanghai to New York, it now costs $8,000, prompting some businesses to look closer to home for manufacturing needs.

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Furniture designer Carol Gregg used to have her signature Chinese chests assembled in China, but such a luxury no longer seems viable, considering that some of her pieces now cost five times more to ship.

So now Gregg is having the chests made in North Carolina, simply because its cheaper.

Some large companies like Crown Battery are cutting expenses by moving jobs from Mexico to Ohio. And hair care company Farouk Systems plans to shift all of its production from China to Houston this summer — bringing with it 1,000 jobs.

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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1492

Well if that isn't a strange turn of events.

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:42 am Post subject:

A break in the clouds. At $5 a gallon, we'll go broke slower WITH jobs than we would without.

It's early to say, but there may be another break in the clouds. Over the past week, gas went down 9 cents instead of up 20.
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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1492

End the sham American occupation overseas and oil will drop like a hot rock.

Yeah right, like THAT will ever happen. George and his cronies are making far too much money to end that occupation.

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

N-n-n-o-o-o. You can't blame oil prices on Muslim resentment. It's entirely manufactured by US futures traders.
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Starman97 · Hates with a Vengance Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 94

Who are looking for some save haven to park cash that is declining in value since the Treasury is printing Dollars like mad to pay for the wars.

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

Yeh, there's that, and that Cheney still runs Halliburton, the only entity profiting from Iraq.
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FallenAngel · Super Hater Joined: 21 Feb 2006 Posts: 1492

gkarris · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:

Let's do the math:

Take a US job at $55,000/year, and ship it overseas.
Pay overseas worker $10,000/year.
Now, take overseas job, and ship it back to the US.
Pay US worker $25,000/year for job returned to the US.

Boy, such a deal...