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Major Nikon

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4. Even if they did what you're suggesting, it still might not bring manufacturing back

Reply to Selatius (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 06:55 AM

Sep 2012

Factories commonly operate inside interconnected industrial clusters where they can support each other. For instance, Silicone Valley is one of these areas. Car manufacturing in Bavaria is another. Transport aircraft production in Seattle is another. Once the industrial base goes somewhere else, it's very difficult to bring it back. That's why Steve Jobs told Obama that Apple production wasn't going to come back to the US.

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