Creating Jobs

Sensata is the old sensor division of Texas Instruments. They dropped most of the useful products soon after. Another case of a business that was closing, and venture capital tried to save it. Only a complete fool thinks Romney still controls Bain Capital.

Most importantly, this is normal economic activity and not something sinister. Looking to lower costs is normal business activity.

Businesses are not charities, and their job is to make money, not "create jobs" that cost more than they could obtain elsewhere. When businesses try to present themselves as charitable benefactors of "American people", this is just laughable.

They are in a shrinking world market, and competing with chinese companies. It's move or die. Most of their customers are foreign car companies.

Well said! Entrepreneurial life is morphing you.

The most insiduous form of government control is through regulations put on businesses. By legislating controls, invisible to most consumers, businesses are forced to act as unpaid bill collectors, snitches and do a thousand other unpalatable things that government wants or needs done but is too afraid to do themselves.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 27 Oct 2012

And some of the work which moved to China because of costs, is moving back for the same reasons.

-- pyotr Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb.

In this case, they'll be located closer to their customers. Mechanical temperature sensors are being replaced with electronic sensors, and the market is shrinking. A market that never employed more than a couple hundred people in the US. I agree, we need more on shore manufacturing but some markets just aren't worth it at this time.

Mold making has been returning to the US over the past 5 or so years.

Seems as though the Chicoms tend to f*ck up molds pretty badly.

Gunner

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 28 Oct 2012

Yep. "We shall make electricity so cheap, only the rich will burn candles." Thomas Edison. What I mean is that , for better or worse - the mass market no longer supports the "old way" - no matter who good it might have been. Those who don't want "new and improved" - or for whom "new and improved" doesn't work - are either out of luck, or have to spend big bucks to get what works.

-- pyotr Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb.

No need for buggy whips, when people don't use horse drawn buggies anymore.

The B.O. ad bitching about Bain closing that Marion, Indiana Ampad factory never mentions that people don't use as many legal pads and notepads as they used to. Businesses use computers, so they should blame Bill gates for that plant closing. How often do you see tractor feed printer paper these days? Green bar printouts are rare. The last I saw was in 2001.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Mon, 29 Oct 2012

True. But the S&M trade pays a premium for them. The whips, not the buggies.

I still have two boxes of printer paper, one green bar, one bond. tractor feed - unopened. Since ..? 95? There's another open box of the bond, which I use to supply paper for the Sunday school kids.

Interesting thing, the tractor feed paper, intended for use with ink, and not lasers, "works" much better for hand written missives. So I essentially I have two stocks of paper: printing paper, and writing paper.

-- pyotr Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb.

I'll have to take your word on that.

In any case, they don't really 'need' them. :)

I have a couple boxes of used greenbar from a printing company. They used it to print proofs for new books. After it was proofread & edited, it was tossed back in the box. I used to give it to kids to color on the back side. They loved the wide carriage paper. :)

Indeed it does. And Im working on the 2nd of the 5 CASES of tractor feed I have on hand.

Gunner

I use tractor feed paper to make scratch pads to carry in my shirt pocket in place of the cigarette box I used to carry to write notes on. I take about 3/8" pile and staple it to a heavier backing then cut it on the band saw. In my case, 8 pads 2 i/2 x 4 3/4". I know, how many scratch pads can one person use? but I have a friend who is a girl guide leader who will take as many as I will donate to hand out to the girls as an example of re-purposing a product that a lot of people would dsicard. Backing card comes from report covers I got at yard sales, but I have used cerial box board.

I just cringe at the leftist battle cry: "More taxes on business!" They really don't get it, do they?

They don't understand why the sun 'disappears at night'. They have to take off their shoes to count over 10. If they were birds, they would be turkeys. Birds so stupid they can drown when it rains, because they keep their head pointed up. The Monty Python 'Dead parrot' is smarter, and it's dead! :(