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Once a manufacturing powerhouse town...
...is slowly turning into another Detroit.
Obama Fails to Stem Middle-Class Slide He Blamed on Bush - Bloomberg Quote:
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Most of my professional and adult life was spent in and around Dayton, Ohio. This is the town that created things we take for granted, such as the electric automobile starter, the easy-open can, the cash register, and many other inventions. Today, it is being turned into a service based economy with low paying jobs or jobs that require years of education and skill, with nothing in the middle. The middle class has been changed, and there's no glimmer of hope that it will ever change back.
In a town where skilled trades used to be looked up to, and a toolmaker was considered an unobtainable goal without 15+ years of training, many are forced to take lower paying jobs in the service industry, killing the dreams of many in the area. This is the town I came from...the town where innovation and "thinking outside fo the box" used to be the norm. Today, surviving from one paycheck to the next is the hope of most. Sure, we could all blame Obama for the mess, but it's not all his fault. However...Obama hasn't done enough to quell the jobs from leaving the borders of the US either. He hasn't agreed to lower corporate taxes enough to make manufacturing attractive in the US. Manufacturing, if you remember, is what builds economies...taking nothing, and turning it into something that everybody uses on a daily basis.
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So you're saying if he lowered taxes on the rich it would raise the birth rate in Dayton?
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I grew up in Northern Cincinnati, just 40 miles south of Dayton. I would say 60-70% or more of manufacturing was automotive and they were smug about it. diversify smircify, we dont have to worry the car industry will be here forever....... as for the machinists, the old 15 year of training guys got supplanted by CNC, most failed to grow and got passed by. I love the area, and the industry was once great, but they had a good run, longer then most, and didnt look for the next big thing.
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Look at my post on the PBS report on German industry. Plenty of Dayton's all over the place there and they don't appear to be in decline at all... - Peter.
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watch it again, they talk about extraordinary investment in R&D, my point exactly. if you rest on your supposed laurals you will get eaten up. adapt or perish
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What is the corporate tax rate? It would seem to reason that lowering it would just mean they would pay less while still manufacturing offshore, no? If we impose tariffs on foreign produced goods . . . wouldn't that be violations of trade agreements? If US companies receive subsidies . . . violations of other international trade agreements?
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- Peter.
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Yes, America's love of toxic waste and job insecurity is well known.
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I still fail to see the connection to lower corporate tax rates as you touted.
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one of the examples was a factory that made big drilling rigs that sells all over the world. Im sure they could make those in Dayton as well. They were so entrenched in automotive they did not look. there are thousand upon thousands of next big things. what do you think manufacturers in Germany are making, 1960s toasters????
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