SMUD has long eyed a parcel of dirt owned by a third party in between its headquarters building and its distribution yard. Kramer Carton company owns a chunk of land right in the middle of SMUDland, producing cardboard packaging products for the last few decades. That is, until about three months ago.
The place has shut down, nobody in or out since November. Today, several Canadian tractor trailers pulled up and began loading industrial equipment from the factory. It is dead, as far as I can tell.
Yep, chalk up a few dozen more lost manufacturing jobs to this bad economy. Send those jobs overseas, because we want cheap-ass packaged Walmart products yet we refuse to pay American wages to produce them. Fuck the American manufacturer. Give 'em an inch and they'll take a mile....what, they want health benefits, too? 401(k) matching? A day care facility? American manufacturers must be high.
I wonder...what will our economy look like when Obama "turns it around?" My guess? We'll have 5% in manufacturing and 95% in the service sector. Our national debt will approach twenty two trillion. Instead of 70%, 90% of our economy will be based on consumer spending. This will be considered progress.
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