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Author is Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal (please fix the author field if possible)
It really would be simple, though not easy, to fix the American economy. The problem in one word is “regulation.” Every governing body is regulating the life out of industry. The EPA, Labor Department and a plethora of taxes, fees, assessments, levies, etc. All of this exists to feed the leviathan of government agencies, employees and benefits packages. It’s not just the cost of, say, hiring an inspector empowered to shut a businesses’ doors. It’s the cost of his benefits for the rest of his life.
Oh, the numbers are probably true, it's just that instead of trained chimpanzees (goonions)...robots are doing the work. 24/7, no meals, smoke breaks, coffee, no vacation, wages, pension, benefits etc etc etc.
as the article admits, the rate of offshoring has become a trickle instead of a flood, in fact many of those same jobs have been “other shored” from China to cheaper places like Thailand. Based on rising labor and freight cost vs the increase in US productivity that argue for keeping jobs here, the rate of reshoring continues to increase:
So they’re like, “bringing back American jobs, now”.