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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps a small bit, but not to the extent people are claiming.  Most GJ voters I know did so because they absolutely refuse to ever vote for a Dem and also refused to vote for Trump.

That's all I'm seeing on FB today is, "if you idiots hadn't given GJ 130k here and 100k there, she would have beat Trump in x, y, z states!!"

I voted for Clinton and was confident until FL.  I had hope until OH.  After that I knew he'd won and her team had seriously underestimated the mid-America vote.

I spent this past weekend with my extended family from traditionally red states.  The older relatives were all voting Trump.  The younger were all voting Clinton.  The older relatives bought right into his "bring the jobs back to America!" talk.  Like he's really going to fire up those car manufacturers in MI and the coal mins in WV (both of which are where my relatives are from and most had jobs in those industries).  [/quote]

I'm this PP and I wanted to add, I work for a company who numerous products manufactured in China and assembled in the US.  We have one product manufactured and assembled in the US.  We have about 85% of our other products fully manufactured and assembled in China.  Why?  Because it's just not cost-effective to manufacture in the US.

The last product we switched to full manufacture and assembly in China had this cost/process in the US:
Week 1 - place order for 1,000 units
Week 2 - get proof, make payment, and get ETD of at least 8 weeks
Week 10 - receive product, QA, inventory, assemble, package product (and I'm being generous as often the manufacturer would really take 11 or 12 weeks for production)

Now, with going directly through China:
Day 1 - order 1,000 units & send 50% payment
Day 2 - proof sample unit
Day 30 - get shipment notification
Day 33-35 - receive goods, QA, inventory (China assembles and packages for free) & send remaining 50% balance

Taking on average 4 months to get something in-hand that was made in the US is just crazy!  It ties up cash flow and causes inventory nightmares.  Get an unexpected large order that wipes your stock?  You're looking at at least 3.5 months of not being able to ship that product while it's made in the US.  You can usually make nice with customers for a 1 month back order on a product.  Some grumble, but most are fine.  But 2 months?  10 weeks?  12 weeks?  Orders start getting canceled.

And that's without even factoring in the low cost of China manufacturing.  My example was strictly time related.       [/quote]

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