Author: DougR
Date: 2010-06-27 02:32
What's heartbreaking about the sending-manufacturing-overseas business, especially with regard to instruments, is they're exporting all that knowledge, all the tooling and equipment and, once it's gone, it's gone forever. The equipment alone would cost a fortune to re-aggregate, even assuming anyone would have the capital for such a costly startup.
All those Elkhart factories that have closed, all the craftsmen displaced, all the knowledge that has vanished: what has replaced it all? Jobs at Wal*mart and Home Depot? That's just sad. (Of course, all my horns are French, except my Armstrong flute and the Jupiter alto flute I'm looking to buy, so I'm not exactly leading the charge for stateside jobs either--except in spirit maybe.)
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