Outsourcing jobs is a problem with the economics of profits. Unions hurt profits so I am in favor of shipping those manufacturing jobs overseas. Bringing in manufacturing jobs into right to work states, e.g., republican/red states means no unionization in most cases. These factories make more profit, but keep their prices high so as not to destroy the union plants whose profits are low; there is a reason the foreign car manufacturers did not go to the North or UAW states. The most profitable business model is to find a democrat monopoly like the MSM and counter with a FOX, or a GM plant and build Hondas. There is less competition, and your profit as the competitor is higher because you do not have overhead associated with the democrat social model. While GM is shipping jobs overseas from the Blue States, the Germans and Japanese are shipping jobs to the Red states. Should have been a campaign commercial on this.
Yes and no.
We gained come jobs in red states, but we also on balance outsourced a (bunch) more jobs than we gained.
So on balance we fell further behind. 16 trillion now.
No sign that will improve. Should get much worse in fact.