Between Nixon opening up China in Feb. 1972, (and the other Presidents following right along), and the corporate bean counter's showing their
bosses how to save a nickle by moving oversea's, we got screwed. Saginaw Mich. used have twelve GM plants alone, now there's one. Oh yeah,
there's still five plant's by I-75 and MI-46, no wait, those are the old Steering Gear- Delphi Plant's, China bought those and call them Nexteer.
I'm going to say that it's more corporate greed then anything else. When the muckitty- mucks have to wait for a tea off time because some workers
are in front of them having fun on a Saturday, or they have to wait for the guy's in front of them to launch their boat, well this won't do. Those people
should be working on weekends, we must be paying them to much. Get used to it. Look at Ebay, punch in "Live steam engines". Half of the items are coming right from you know where and you keep buying it. I priced out one of those twin cylinder marine engines and boiler from China. Noticed the prices have been rising steadily. I then checked Siato's twin's and boiler's, same price if not cheaper, and I would much rather have one from Japan, but that's
just me.