Oleg, there is actually small movement starting that is realizing this problem and need...
in one of our local city schools they put together a program to train average ( but passing) students for reasonably paying production jobs . Participants - Baush and Lomb, Xerox, Some wine companies ( I think, Constellation Brands) , others... RIT provides training technology. Main idea - train city kids, keep jobs in the city.
Hope it will catch on in other areas , too...

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I was going to re-post Oleg's first post but instead decided to go shovel my driveway.
So there is a chance it might not be another Obama topic?

Will do it anyway:
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Страна ничего не производит. Вся индустрия отправляется кудаподальше.Как вернуть производство, когда средняя зарплата в чассоставляет среднюю зарплату в неделю в Африке (на Китае свет клином несошелся)? Президент Обама аргументировал bailout GM & Chrysler темчто он хочет чтобы новое поколение детей вырастало в стране "that stillmakes stuff". Как можно этого добиться когда стоимость производствапродукта В Китае или Северной Америке разнится в 100 раз? Провестизакон, заставляющий родителей покупать велосипед за 500 долларов потомучто он made in USA?

Otherwise, create a group that hates Obama vehemently, and hurl insults......and your group will die in 15 minutes, you know why? BECAUSE YOUALL THINK ALIKE!!!!! AND IT'S BOOOOOOOOOOORING!!!!
They did open the group like that and it is boring. For that reason they are all here, including the creator, to be able to read a different opinion. Just like the other group of different persuasion is dead after Glenn Beck's mutilated body became cold. Diversity is fun, brown-nosing is fun!

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You know what I meant. Geller has been after me since GIMME times. If you don't recite top five Fox News editorials you are a traitor in her eyes.

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:-) are you talking about Julia Stein's group...that dies in 15 minutes? (ch)
who is the founder of 'that' group? who are "they all"?
aren't you yourself in numerous groups?
didn't you mention Obama yourself in your first post? (ch)
btw, I've never met such disgusting person (N) ..ну от психопатки-алкоголички уже ничего не удивительно..
а у самого какие-то умные идеи есть кроме африканцев? один раз уже африканцев сюда привезли..закончилось плохо..(tr)

Будет ли велосипед стоить $500 (или в два раза дороже) если он сделан в Америке?

Labor cost can be offset by automation (faster assembly per bike), lean manufacturing (less waste).
Toyota makes cars in US. No complains on profit there.

Slavik, foreign automakers in USA are not unionized. That's the big answer to the bigger question.

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I googled "union vs non-union wages automakers"
Here is one of the articles:
********newsbusters.org/node/7344
According to this Wall Street Journal article reprinted in the Star-Telegram, "on average, GM pays $81.18 an hour in wages and benefits to U.S. hourly workers, including pension and retiree medical costs."
But in his vituperative rant against the Big Three U.S. automakers, Boston Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson manages to ignore the huge labor cost advantage enjoyed by non-union Toyota.
How much of an advantage? According to that same article, "Harbour Consulting President Ron Harbour estimates Toyota's total hourly U.S. labor costs, with benefits, at about $35 an hour." That's right, GM's average labor costs are 130% higher than that of the US operations of its Japanese rival. That translates into a $1,000/vehicle average labor-cost advantage enjoyed by Toyota. Thank you, UAW!