Manufacturing recovery quickens

Article by: SUSAN FEYDER , Star Tribune
Updated: March 1, 2011 - 9:33 PM

An uncertain outlook for oil prices appears to be the only cloud on the immediate horizon.

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upnortfanMar. 2, 11 7:38 AM

Ok, nice article, slanted as usual(aren't all). Yes Manufacturing is picking up. Why you ask, because most companies have invested in robots, electronic offices, and not into wages, pensions, salaries etc. Very simple we have our wages and taxes so high that most companies that could have upgraded their factories not their workers because it is lot cheaper to do that. Period. All the gritting and gnashing of teeth will not reverse that. Fed Congress under Obama has spent $3 Trillion to Save or Create jobs. Hello, we are still at 9% or higher unemployment. About time we faced that fact. Increases in manufacture will only come from automation not more workers. Eventually this house of cards will fall as there will not be enough workers to buy what is made. (Harvard Econ 101) So where will we sell out products, in China, India, etc where there are more people working not in the US where there are less workers but improved Manufacturing. Does anyone get this? Wake up and smell the roses, reporters tell it like it is.