Kiplinger: Another 200,000 manufacturing jobs will be lost
Feb, 01 2008
- The Kiplinger Letter, February 1, 2008; Volume 85, Number 5.
[Tustin, CA - February, 2008] Kiplinger estimates the year 2008 will suffer the same manufacturing job migration overseas as experienced in 2007.
The Kiplinger Letter states when the economy recovers; factory output will increase by the use of More and Better Equipment, not more workers.
"Human nature is to upgrade, invent and automate," states Dave Cline, CEO of Fluid Research® Corporation, "Farming is the ideal example of this progression, harvesting was a manual process until 100 years ago when people discovered a machine could perform the same tasks more quicker, more consistant, and cheaper than manual laborers could; nowadays, your average farmer no longer knows how to reap crops, instead he rides in his diesel powered combine with GPS and air conditioning...letting the machine perform the backbreaking portion."
Fluid Research Corporation provides automated dispensing solutions to reduce cost, waste and human error, “An automated machine performs tasks consistently, accurately, and efficiently; freeing great minds to further advance society,” states Cline. “Thomas Edison was a telegraph operator, imagine what type of world we would live in if he was too busy typing morse code over lines and didn’t have time to invent…”