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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
What labor costs? They farmed the contract to a company based in China...
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Now they do now, but there was time you would only find American made product in the hand of the troops...lol
Then again many of these contractor have their suppliers shipping them supplies with x% of reduction of pricing every year for the lifetime of the contract. Much like the Auto Industry force down their Suppliers throat even though cost such as shipping, material, utilities, and what not usually went up while they were force to keep their wages low to be compete for the few contracts. While they kept paying their exec big money, their line worker quite well because the Unions felt they needed bloated wages. While the people working at many of their low end suppliers could barely make living let alone afford to buy new vehicle.
Don't get me started on the just in time production penalties that were enforce when shipments were late not due to their supplier, but still they were the ones who paid for shutting down a line. Granted there was time in the Auto Industry where at some plants they had inventory for vehicles that they had made a generation before at times. It one of the many reason at one time, it wasn't a problem to find parts for vehicle that were 20+ years old. Their inventory of parts was that huge, where now you have trouble finding parts for anything vehicle that is over life-time of it Warranty. We had 1995 Chevy Lumina Mini Van but we couldn't find parts as simple as track for the door windows. Ugh.
Sorry for getting on the soap box. Stepping off it now.