Originally Posted by
kygorski
One of my earliest jobs was at a ford plant in chicago.After 2 days fabricating fender cowls, they put me on the chase line. I lasted 2 12 hour days, and quit. I still think of that place as a gulag. Last year we took a tour of that plant.Probably a quarter of the employees, and they made more cars. Robots! When I got out of the army, I was accepted as an apprentice machinist,that was during a very slow time in the steel industry where my apprenticeship was. I got laid off. Things have changed in machineing also.Programable lathes, boring machines, turret lathes. Now instead of a blue print, a program goes into a machine, and away it goes. There is no way to bring back the work force because of automation. Coal? hah, natural gas is cheaper, cleaner, and much easier to deal with, and little visible by product, like fly ash. The ONLY reason we are still using ethanol is because of the agri business lobby. Steel, most of the plants are gone, I don't think there is an ore boat left on the great lakes. And wages have not risen that much for un skilled workers. But CEO wages keep going up, and if a CEO gets axed, he gets a fortune in severence pay. Like I said the same thing would nbe true if clinton won.