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No. Outsourcing has nothing to do with it. Those jobs do not pay what an American middle class lifestyle needs to survive. They would be gone, "offshoring" or not. This can be seen in the fact that the nations they were once out-sourced to are now themselves out-sourcing to still lower-tier economies as they get wealthier.

The fact is, the key is now and has always been "value-added," and menial jobs relatively speaking add very, very little value. So it's either retool as a tech economy or whine and be poor. There is no going back to assembly lines.

Offshoring, a nasty version of "free trade", is a Marxist tool to make the life to the untermensch miserable to a point of proletariat revelation.

So half the population has an IQ below 100, these people are either going to work at "menial" factory jobs or revolt. Your choice.

It's already happening now.

Outsourcing has nothing to do with it. Those jobs do not pay what an American middle class lifestyle needs to survive.

They did. My dad raised a family, helped send two kids to college, lived a solid middle-class life, and retired with a pension on a high school degree and a career at the Ford plant. He's not alone. Manufacturing and construction provided middle-class lifestyles for millions of people in this country. But now manufacturing is chasing the cheapest wage overseas and construction has been populated by foreign workers willing to work for a fraction of a U.S. worker will.

The fact is, the key is now and has always been "value-added," and menial jobs relatively speaking add very, very little value.

Amazing how you concluded that working in manufacturing is menial and adds little value. What do you think creates the product from the pieces? Pixies? U.S. factories consistently out-perform foreign workers in terms of quality and productivity. You don't do that with a dumb workforce. But corporations still look for the cheapest salary rate.