We did. Our economy is now seven times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter left office. And we manufacture more products now than ever in our past.
IF we hadn’t off shored so many industries( to many to list) how much large would the economy be? It would be huge.
The service economy has put us in debt to other nations. The plan didn’t work for most Americans. It did make some Americans rich, maybe the 1 percenters. De industrialization had some winners I will acknowledge that.