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13 Sep 08
13 Sep 08
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One of my 8th grade students told me this. I told him he was wrong. I said we make the advanced items, and we let other countries do the simple manufacturing of consumer goods because we've moved on to the advanced stuff. I said we make computers...umm....weapons...
What else do we make in the USA?
Scientific devices like gas chromatographs maybe?
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by Sam The ShamI'm trying to Google it, but I'm having a tremendously difficult time getting numbers on what we're exporting. All I see are offers to help me export my goods (banish or deport my students from their hometown? 😕) and how much we export to which country.
This is from 5 or more years ago, but I seem to recall that the US produced 25% of all manufactured goods in the world. I don't imagine the current figures have changed that much.
I am seeing one huge trend - agricultural products. But even there, what does that mean? Raw corn and cotton? Wonder bread and GAP shirts?
13 Sep 08
The company that I used to work for manufactured industrial boilers. The did sub contract some work from Korea, but right now, they do most the mfct. themselves (industrial welding).
The company that I make for now manufactures filters of many kinds in the US but also elsewhere in the world.
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungYou're right, googling it is harder than it would seem. Maybe this will help, America sold almost 4 TRILLION dollars of manufactured goods to foreign countries in 2002, if I'm reading it right.
I'm trying to Google it, but I'm having a tremendously difficult time getting numbers on what we're exporting. All I see are offers to help me export my goods (banish or deport my students from their hometown? 😕) and how much we export to which country.
I am seeing one huge trend - agricultural products. But even there, what does that mean? Raw corn and cotton? Wonder bread and GAP shirts?
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungPity ... spreading your racist ideas among our future.
One of my 8th grade students told me this. I told him he was wrong. I said we make the advanced items, and we let other countries do the simple manufacturing of consumer goods because we've moved on to the advanced stuff. I said we make computers...umm....weapons...
What else do we make in the USA?
Scientific devices like gas chromatographs maybe?
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by scherzoyes, quiet. What a terrible rasist he is, he's errm rasists against Americans (right?) or is he rasist against the countries America import from (That's it, right?) No? Oh the countries America export to?
Pity ... spreading your racist ideas among our future.
Give us a clue here would ya [clown]
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungNot only that, but also point out to your students how environmentally friendly America has been by reducing manufacturing. BTU use per GDP is half of what it was a few decades ago. This in turns helps us in an econommic downturn. While we still lose the retail jobs, we don't also lose the manufacturing jobs like we used to.
One of my 8th grade students told me this. I told him he was wrong. I said we make the advanced items, and we let other countries do the simple manufacturing of consumer goods because we've moved on to the advanced stuff. I said we make computers...umm....weapons...
What else do we make in the USA?
Scientific devices like gas chromatographs maybe?
13 Sep 08
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Originally posted by scherzoYeah, a white/chicano science teacher telling black inner city kids that their country is great but that they need a good education to be able to appreciate it is so racist.
Pity ... spreading your racist ideas among our future.
How about "Mexicans and Chinese are taking our jobs, we need to get our jobs back in this country, boycott foreign goods so we can get our manufacturing jobs back"? Is that less racist?
I'm not the one who openly prioritises my race and a foreign country over my own.
13 Sep 08
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamI really want to know what those manufactured goods are. I want to get away from abstractions and into concrete imagery like "the US is the leading manufacturer of XXX" or "US primary manufactured exports are B, C and D"
You're right, googling it is harder than it would seem. Maybe this will help, America sold almost 4 TRILLION dollars of manufactured goods to foreign countries in 2002, if I'm reading it right.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
13 Sep 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungAirplanes, Mining, Construction and mining equipment, Automobiles, Semi trucks, heck, with all the soda this country consumes, we're probably tops in manufacturing of soda bottles and soda cans.
I really want to know what those manufactured goods are. I want to get away from abstractions and into concrete imagery like "the US is the leading manufacturer of XXX" or "US primary manufactured exports are B, C and D"
If I run across any hard numbers, I'll post a link.
13 Sep 08
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Originally posted by AThousandYoungOil and drilling equipment; Harley Davidson motorcycles; Boeing aircraft; Baker-Hughes Tool Company; Raytheon (satellites and missile technology); Smith and Wesson; Microsoft; LucasFilms; Kraft Foods; Heinz Foods; Saturn Cars; Buck Knives; Stern Pinball.
I really want to know what those manufactured goods are. I want to get away from abstractions and into concrete imagery like "the US is the leading manufacturer of XXX" or "US primary manufactured exports are B, C and D"