Re: “We manufacture twice as much in the US as we did in 1975.”
In “Purchase Parity” dollars, America was still the largest manufacturer in the world in 2011.
We beat China by about $20 billion.
And, China employs 8 times more industrial workers than the USA!
So would we if we quit paying people NOT to work!
Our inner cities SHOULD be the cleanest on Earth; but we have gutless politicians.