When about everything you guy is made elsewhere there are plenty of jobs to be brought back to the USA where they would pay taxes, buy products, get off unemployment and pay into SS.
Check out the article linked in Post #9. The company profiled in that article currently has a sales force of 15 workers, and they're looking to bring their manufacturing back to Arkansas. They're going to employ all of 17 people when they do this -- and maybe get up to 74 full-time employees if the facility is running at full capacity in a few years. This is the kind of industry that probably employed hundreds of people at any one facility in the past.
Interestingly, it's the automation that's bringing these manufacturing processes back to the U.S. Chinese labor is cheaper than American labor, but an automated facility in the U.S. is cheaper to operate than an automated facility in China.