Who else has seen this occur:

[WNYresident]

This was on www.buffalo.com. Do others believe this is the case and what do you think is the main cause if this issue?

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Manufacturing jobs are becoming extinct

11/16/2003

I read with interest the recent News editorial on the proposal made by Sen. Charles Schumer to add a 27.5 percent across-the-board tariff on all products produced in China. The News editors are against this.
I am currently employed at Buffalo China and have 25 years of service. This job will last another three months. Oneida, our parent company, has decided to ship the manufacturing of dinnerware to China. As employees, we were told that Oneida reached this decision because it would be 30 percent to 40 percent cheaper to produce our product in China. If Schumer's proposed tariff had been in place, maybe Oneida's decision would have been different, since the profit would be less.

The editorial also said the Institute for Supply Management released figures indicating that the manufacturing sector expanded strongly. I have seen nothing in The News about thousands of manufacturing jobs being added to the economy. In fact, the opposite is true. There are at least three stories each week about a company closing or moving production to the Pacific Rim.

Once China has a monopoly on manufacturing, do the editors honestly think that China will continue to keep its prices low? Of course not. China will want its citizens to enjoy a better standard of living, and prices will go up. Add this to the white-collar jobs that are going to India, and we won't have to worry about consumers in America. There won't be any. All of the jobs will be gone.

KATHY KOSZUTA
Buffalo

[citymouse]

No they won't!
Those companies will come back and our grand children will work 12 hour shifts for a dollar a day so they don't starve.