It has great optics, but what else would you expect from General Electric?  On the splashy, shiny surface it appears GE, in it’s great concern for the American worker, has decided to build a manufacturing plant in Grove City, PA.  An area which, like so many Midwestern cities, is suffering terribly from the corporate closing of US factories in favor of cheap Chinese labor and building costs.

In a similar move, Ford is building again in Louisville KY, announcing a plan to bring hundreds of new jobs to the troubled area.  Sounds great, doesn’t it?  Big corporations realizing their mistakes, returning jobs to America.  It isn’t all altruism, of course, the fact is that as we’ve exported jobs to China, the Chinese have demanded higher wages.  That’s cow capitalism works.  So now it’s just as cheap to return the jobs here . . .as long as the American worker doesn’t expect the kind of middle-class wage s/he enjoyed before the jobs left for China in the first place.

With the near-perfect destruction of the labor unions, the corporatists feel safe retuning home, to generously allow Americans to build their stuff once more – for half-wages. Aren’t they wonderful?

God Bless Us Everyone. 

Read the rest of this article from the NY Times and get ready for the New American Century: