"Made In America Movement" A Big Fat Lie?

[Commodore]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2013/11/03/reports-of-americas-manufacturing-renaissance-are-just-a-cruel-hoax/?partner=yahootix

So basically all this "we're bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US!" stuff is just a bunch of bull. All these companies (looking at you Wal-Mart) have been beating their chests the past few years and it's all just a big fat lie.

Now my question is this: Are there any supporters of the "Made in America" movement here that can offer up any kind of defense for this? Or do you feel deceived by this whole thing?

 

[Archbob]

I don't really care where its made, as long as it works.

 

[Kyriakos]

Afaik US industry jobs are gone to developing countries (or worse, where the local, city level infrastructure allows) to a very large degree. Same with many other parts of the west. I doubt this is being reversed, but i do not doubt it will soon lead to even worse unemployment problems in countries which used to have negligible problems of this sort.

Will it allow the developing countries to have a larger market themselves? Most probably. But in the long run it will lead to a smaller global market due to a rapid diminishing of the traditionaly larger (western mostly) markets and the ability of their citizens to spend much on most types of products anyway.

 

[galdre]

I care about how things are made (environmental impact of processes and labor practices) and the quality of the products, not where they're made.

 

[warpus]

I don't really pay attention to "Made in Canada" stickers, no. Not many things are made here anyway.

 

[Kyriakos]

^CanadAir supposedly are. Planes>most other exports

 

[Commodore]

The point of this was not about where products are made, but about companies claiming they are bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US when they are, in fact, outsourcing just as much as they always have.

Do you all think there should be some sort of consequences or punishment for companies that flat out lie like this?

 

[Synobun]

Sure, if we're willing to punish every other company for their lies, too. This is one of the more tame lies in my eyes, the sticker doesn't hurt anyone except on a potential psychological aspect.

 

[Cutlass]

Most complex products have complex production these days. Components and assembly can come from pretty much anywhere. There is a small increase in domestic US manufacturing. But few products are exclusively US manufacture. And the type of consumer products where people are most likely to note the "made in" tag are generally not US manufacture.

 

[Kyriakos]

I do think that it is difficult to do much by now, given that most of those companies are on the large side, and so don't mind leaving the country of 'origin' alltogether. They only "care" if a bug part of their client-list is in that country.