[Count of Monte Fisto]

The biggest factor in the decline of U.S. manufacturing jobs was never foreign competition, but automation. The days of having a massive manufacturing facility with several thousand employees who walk to work from the surrounding town are over -- and this will be for good, until we have some kind of "Year Zero" type of armageddon and we go back to the Stone Age to start all over again.

Unmitigated bullcrap. The worlds #1 trading nation, Red China, has the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world. So much so that the US doesn't even have the capability to produce the high end electronics that are made there. There are tens of thousands that work at the Foxconn factories making Apple products. The number of Red Chinese workers involved just in manufacturing is four times the number of ALL the workers in the US.

This "automation" canard is just part of the conjob Free Traitors have used to move US manufacturing to Red China and other Third World pits. Free Traitors have ruined this country and deserve to be sent to the gallows.

This is what high tech manufacturing that used to be done in the US has allowed Red China to accomplish.

[Mears]

My son Visited Shanghai last year and was quite impressed.

That picture is beautiful.

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[Alberta's Child]

Unmitigated bullcrap. The worlds #1 trading nation, Red China, has the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world. So much so that the US doesn't even have the capability to produce the high end electronics that are made there. There are tens of thousands that work at the Foxconn factories making Apple products. The number of Red Chinese workers involved just in manufacturing is four times the number of ALL the workers in the US.

Do the research on any figures related to manufacturing output, and you'll see how contradictory your post is. You claim the Red Chinese have four times more manufacturing workers than the entire U.S. labor pool, and yet the industrial output of the two nations is almost the same. I find it hard to believe that China has the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world if their productivity is so poor.

The U.S. isn't really selling out to these competitors at all. The U.S. is simply being eclipsed by them, as many of these larger, faster-growing nations will likely surpass the U.S. over time almost as a natural series of events. When you refer to "high-tech manufacturing that used to be done in the U.S.," you speak as if the U.S. had some kind of manifest destiny that would have kept it at the forefront of the world until the end of time. That's just delusional thinking. One of the dirty little secrets of our modern world is that a lot of the manufacturing that is done in Asia isn't even aimed at supporting a major consumer market in the U.S. anymore. Some of these countries are exporting more to other Asian trading partners than they are to us.