Went up to Osceola, WI this Christmas to play in the snow. I saw a town reeling from a billion dollar company making record profits (POLARIS) closing a plant that makes ATVs and Ranger parts, engines and other components. Those jack holes (POLARIS) has closed over half the plant and will be shutting the rest down soon. Ask where it is going -Salito, MEXICO!

That is over 550 jobs sent south to MEXICO. Cheap labor is the reason.

I have purchased my last Polaris.

An option may be to purchase an Artic Cat which is still made here.


This is such a shame because this is Osceola's largest employer.

 

old news bro

I feel the same way you do, but,
if you try to buy only "American Made" items... you'll have an empty house & garage.

 

I'm not going to buy a Polaris either.

 

something like.... "why buy the cow when you get the milk for free....?"

 

old news bro

I feel the same way you do, but,
if you try to buy only "American Made" items... you'll have an empty house & garage.


Hopefully in that empty house and garage you wont have to breathe in the fumes from the Chinese sheet rock that some builders used until it was found out and had to be removed! Glad I built my own 30 years ago! Ain't no Mc Mansion, but I know where every stud is and how many sheets of drywall are in it!Along with everything else.Only problem is you can't find anything made in the US any more to try to keep it up! OPT

 

yeah- I remember that- not too much of that sheetrock made it up here in mass- mostly down in the florida area if I remember correctly.

I think eventually, it won't be so cheap to hire chinese labor and it won't make so much sense to send american jobs that way.

I was just talking to a marine reservist who is a machinist- he's heading to china in 2 weeks for a 3 year contract machining parts in china- for a company that used to be in america! Says he'll make more over there- because jobs around here in that industry are so scarce

how is it cheaper for an american company to send an american worker to china to build parts for them

 

Sounds like a movie I saw about an American that was sent to India to train his "replacement". Probably soon as he can teach some Chinese workers how to do his job he'll be shipped back to the states with no job! Plus with their infringing on patent rights, accusations of technology stealing,etc! I agree (at least what I've read) about the Chinese workers wanting more money and benefits now that they have a sort of "middle class" and that hopefully soon will make Chinese products higher and may help slow the outsourcing? May open a few doors for Americans to produce again! Don't think they can go on forever without shooting themselves in the foot! But still the trade deficit and the chunk of the US they practically own will take years to balance out if it ever does? OPT

 

If you are looking for a strictly American ATV sourced and assembled you can't do it. Can-
Am is Canadian, Artic Cat has used Japanese engines for years. All vehicles usually have at least part of the assembly or parts from around the world. Without turning this into a political discussion, the laws, federal bureaucratic mandates, environMENTAL ists, tax codes and unions have made it difficult to build much of anything except higher items tech in the U.S.

 

It can be done.

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