Most companies use a perverted form of lean manufacturing these days and tout it as a buzzword. Lean in its real form like the Toyota Production System is great for all provided all are rowing the same direction and all have skin in the game. Cost cutting, reductions and lean with no real understanding or lean tools is what we usually end up with. Ive seen and worked in both. It is miserable when "lean" is in motion without the tools to be successful.
I'm a capitalist myself but I put quality ahead of all other aspects in my own business. A simple concept has quickly positioned me as a leader in my market share. Investors want returns. Returns come from sales and profits. Sales and profits come from quality. I'm a coon ass and I can figure that one out.
I see a strange irony if Honda were to take manufacturing overseas.
They did with the Goldwing, no longer made in America
Honda probably moved the Goldwing for reasons we will never know, I imagine it had to do with cost and taxes, versus quality. The fed likes to steal every last cent they can. Companies are buying overseas companies and "moving" their HQ on paper to the overseas location to reduce their tax burden by BILLIONS. People are renouncing their US citizenship because even though they live overseas, work overseas and never come home they are taxed. Plus whatever the country they work in charges them.
When the US is a hotbed of unskilled workers (a skilled worker being anyone with a valuable LEARNED skill that has put forth effort into learning that skill) making way more than they contribute to the economy because of congressmen who want votes. 3 day long time delays because you have to have union a mechanic come change a tire on a service truck. (Not kidding just had this happen we had a job SHUT DOWN for 3 days at $10,000 a day in liquidated damages to the GC, while we waited on a union mechanic to come change another contractors service truck tire that went flat in the wrong place at the worst time. The driver was not ALLOWED to change it)
Ect...we could go on for days why making/selling something in America costs more than many other places.
If WE American's want to stop loosing production, manufacturing, engineering, industrial jobs we need to start teaching people to perform those jobs WELL, proud of what they have done, balance their own checkbook, be responsible adults, and respect other people.
You can't legislate this country into prosperity or morality, only the character driven American working man get make this country prosperous again. Get the governments fat greasy greedy fingers out of every transaction and that will be easier.
People need to grow up and stop asking for a hand out.
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