Loss of manufacturing jobs is world wide.
The US has lost far fewer than countries like Brazil and China.
The United States continues to manufacture more goods than Japan, China and Germany *COMBINED*. It’s a fact.
Just because we don’t make toothpicks, furniture and T-shirts doesn’t mean we don’t make things here. High performance polymers, biotech products (drugs), heavy machinery, high tech (non-commodity) products - all of that is made here. What has happened is that assembly line jobs are being replaced by biotech laboratory jobs that pay 2x. But you have to have a degree to work there.
The difference is though that US has been losing manufacturing jobs for 30 years. China did not manufacture
much 30 years ago and exported nothing then.
I agree with everything in this article. The exportation of our jobs is the core cause of Americas current problems. I cannot fathom any red blooded american believing otherwise. Ross Perot was right.