[WRhine]

Let's see, America is out of the TV business, radios, cell phones, Iphones, communication & network equipment, cameras, HDTV, PC components, consumer electronics across the board, clothing, furniture, home appliances, home furnishings, flashlights, shoes, lost over half our auto industry, more than half our steel and aluminum industry, much of our tool and die industry. Just to name a few lost industries.

Sure, nothing has changed. Indoctrinated free trade adherents will try to bend and manipulate any data they can find to obfuscate the extreme degradation One-Way free trade deals has done to our manufacturing and technology sectors...the prime cause for our economic woes today.

You see, automation and reclassifying service industries as manufacturing is not the point. The point is, America has lost many critical industries and thus has lost the skills needed to keep this country prosperous, strong and scientifically relavant in the future.

We are not going to lead the world by being the best in Insurance. You don't get it, and likely never will.

[virgil]

You’re right about that. With the jobs, the knowledge and skills base is off shored too. So, then they have to import the labor and expand H1B type visa programs. Insane. It’s really not a good thing for the country no matter how much they try to convince us it is.