A company committed to America

A company committed to America

A headline Aug. 25 read, “Tim- ken considers upgrading of plant.” Hooray for Timken. It is manufacturing that will help to bring down unemployment figures. Each manufacturing job will add two or three additional jobs to the employment figures. Another plus to this is the construction work that accompanies such an undertaking.

All efforts should be made to assure that Timken will do this upgrade. There is also a very good plus side for Timken at this time. Costs can be kept at a minimum in a depressed market, and as the economy improves, and it will, Timken will be ready to supply the products needed in an expanding economy. This thinking has been proved in the past, and will be repeated again.

It might be added that Honda is planning to build a plant in Mexico which will employ about 3,200 and build cars to sell in the United States. The vehicle that Honda wants to build will be in competition with the Cruze being manufactured in Lordstown, Ohio. Where is the UAW, and the powers that be that this should be allowed to happen? NAFTA will allow those cars produced in Mexico to enter the United States, but this does not say that the American buyer will buy them. I for one will argue against anyone who would buy a Honda, starting immediately.

IBM sold its manufacturing to China, stating that there is no longer a market for computer hardware in the United States, and they will be a service center for hardware being built in China. How na Øve can a company like IBM be? Hewlett Packard is contemplating the same maneuver. That should not be allowed to happen.

Kudos to Timken, a true American company.

Leonard J. Sainato, Warren