“Oh, yeah, everything is just fine, truth_seeker. No sir, nothing wrong with the state of US manufacturing. Nothing to see here...”
Manufacturing will go to low cost locations, where wages will be low, too. Is that the future you see for your America?
There are plenty of other functionss in the process of bring a product and/or service to the customer. Many of those are based on higher wages.
It comes down to competing with Indonesia and China for manufacturing jobs, or with Switzerland and Japan, for other management, service and administrative functions of company activity.
Ideally we could compete for all of the functions, but I don’t see that either.
For example in Europe many people speak two or more languages, not just one....upon which it is a point of pride for many Americans to not have to speak anything but English.
Math and science are not popular with many American students. The kids and parents, not the government, have agreed to ill prepare the person for a high paying career.
Americans have grown fat and happy with the status quo, complete with tatoos and rap music.
Our poor people are overweight and have cell phones, but no marketable job skills.
Unfortunately, the fake economy we created based on credit-based consumption is completely unsustainable. So whether you and I want it or not, things are going to have to change somewhere. The only viable change I see is starting to actually make things here again. And yes, that means that your friendly local barista selling sh*tty coffee for $5 a pop will need to do some manual labor. And yes, wages are going to go down. And yes, we need to stop sending every retard and his cousin Charlie into college debt-slavery to ‘find himself’. You may want to blame it on me, but I didn’t cause it. Decades of reckless government behavior did.
In the end, sure parents and individuals are responsible, but the government central planners have been pushing people towards educational apathy for generations. Seizing increasingly large portions of family incomes doesn’t help parents to have more time to spend with their kids either, so they’ve left education to the government schools, who have filled children with propaganda for years. With that propaganda comes the nanny state, which is now so pervasive that parents are afraid to let their kids out of their sight. Now, is it any wonder that we’re fat, ignorant, and lazy minded? At the root of every bit of it is the government.
There is no easy way out of this mess. Citing that a bunch of automobiles which in the very near future Americans won’t even be affordable for most Americans, are being made here, isn’t exactly earthshattering news about the state of our destroyed manufacturing base.