Except for cities that have had mass transit for it very hard for any city to convince people to use mass transit. People like the convenience of a car/truck. So the idea of mass transit is hard to sell to non users.
As far as jobs moving off shore that is more the fault of the general buying public than of the CEO's. If you are running a company you have to compete against any other company making or selling a similar product. So if the buying public buys based on price and they (your competitors) are importing a product much cheaper than you can make it in the states you too will have to "out source" or close your doors. It's as simple as that. The government isn't helping much. When they forced the auto makers to spin off some of their companies the cost for things like starter and charging systems went up. To keep the cost of a car down they now have them made overseas.
The supply trams system works in Germany because the have an above ground lite rail system in most city areas. They build that factory in a down town area near the Ebaun tracks to start with. If you look many of our factories are serviced both by trucks and by rail. The rail system has gotten smaller with rail roads stopping service on non profitable routes. There use to be a track on the north side of our farm. It serviced 3 small towns grain elevators, 2 implement dealers and 2 lumber yards. When the farm economy crashed in the 80's 2 of the 3 elevators and both dealers went under. So they stopped using that route. Wasn't profitable. About 20 years ago they pulled up the track to reduce their liability.
The top countries for manufacturing currently are:
1. China (no surprise, they took top honors in 2010)
2. USA
3. Japan
So we do indeed make stuff here. The unions and certain politicians like to have us believe otherwise.
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