Manufacturing jobs will NEVER return to our country for several basic reasons:
A legal system out of control. No tort reform.
The EPA.
OSHA.
Unions and the total support for them from our Congress.
The lack of employees who have the skills needed and the work ethic that will make them productive.
The fact that we have gone from a free country to a new social utopia controlled by Socialists, Communists, and Marxists.
There are many more reasons that manufacturing won’t be back but it all relates to the ability of the business to actually wade through all of the regulations, legal minefields, and fines and taxes to make a profit.
On the contrary, mechanization, automation, computerization, robotics and improved work methods have much more influence on the need for workers than the inability of a company’s lawyers to read and understand government rules.