Posted on 03/20/2016 2:27:51 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
The ability of the US manufacturing sector to produce increasing amounts of output with fewer and fewer workers should be recognized as a sign of economic strength and vitality, not economic weakness. Thanks to advances in technology, the factory floor today is one with modern, advanced, state-of-the-art equipment that requires fewer employees, but with greater skills and training than in the past. The trend in US manufacturing over the last 30 years – more and more output with fewer and fewer workers – is exactly like the transformation that revolutionized US farming over the last 100 years or more. With fewer than 2% of America’s workers, we produce more agricultural output today in the US than when much greater numbers and much higher shares of the nation’s employees were working on farms. And yet when have you ever heard anybody say that “America just doesn’t grow anything anymore”? The fact that we frequently hear that “America just doesn’t manufacture or produce anything anymore” isn’t consistent with the reality that US factories produce more output today than at any time in US history.
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Making other countries the boogeyman allows the liberals to kill industrial employment while at the very same time also blaming industry for not hiring.
Folks, we cannot even keep hamburger flippers employed and freshly prepared hamburgers do not face foreign imports. Hamburger flipping is getting so costly even the illegals are finding it hard to get to compete against the robots.
Bunk.
This article is a one-sided puff piece.
There is a lot of manufacturing. In China. China now leads America in exports, yet this entire article seems to pretend they’re not even a country.
This article is complete nonsense.
That doesn't make sense. Silly sophistry.
How much better would American manufacturing be wig the 55,000 factories closed since 2001 had stayed open?
wig = if
Lets import another 10 million refugees, legal and illegals per year. That should fix it.
And yet when have you ever heard anybody say that "America just doesn’t grow anything anymore"? The fact that we frequently hear that "America just doesn’t manufacture or produce anything anymore" isn't consistent with the reality that US factories produce more output today than at any time in US history.
The difference here is that Americans have been conditioned to believe that employers hiring massive numbers of people to work in factories is the norm, and that we have some kind of God-given right to a job regardless of whether it makes any financial sense at all.
The simple truth is that nobody has a right to a job. If you can't produce enough with your efforts to make your job profitable for your employer, then your employer will figure out how to get things done without you.
Is there anything in this article that is factually incorrect?
The article doesn’t take into account that 12 million manufacturing jobs were lost since 2001.
But everyone over 18 has the right to vote. So my guess is that people without jobs tend to vote socialist. GloBULLists are not only traitors they are socialists. Frankly, I would have a hard time not putting you into either category.
This article is a one-sided puff piece.
There is a lot of manufacturing. In China. China now leads America in exports, yet this entire article seems to pretend they’re not even a country.
This article is complete nonsense.’
This is one of the worst examples of disinformation that the Oligarchs have foisted on us yet.
We see factory and factory leaving the US, and this article says,
Don't believe your lying eyes.
TWB
How many agricultural jobs were lost since 2001?
it is largely reiteration of reiteration
Dude, those 12 million jobs went overseas. They didn’t just disappear.
Dude -- people with jobs tend to vote socialist, too. I don't see the AFL-CIO and its union affiliates supporting a long list of conservative Republicans, do you?
Engineering, with ever increasing specialization.
“The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future....” —The Aviator
Agriculture and manufacturing are not related at all. To mix the two together shows a lack of basic economic understanding and simplistic thinking.
Only 10% of the manufacturing work force is unionized. 10%. Many blue collar factory workers are going to vote for Trump. Huge numbers.
2. Why don't you care about the jobs lost in the agricultural sector?
Great — I look forward to seeing Trump get all that support from union workers.
wow..... you really get your panties in a wad over stuff you don’t properly understand
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