[Asclepius]

... WILL FIRST DESTROY OUR MIDDLE CLASS ...

Um, no. Only six percent of us are in manufacturing. And most of those workers aren't middle class. (And yet we produce as much as a percentage of our GDP as we ever did. Productivity is an amazing thing.)

[cp124]

Source please.

Manufacturing workers’ earnings exceed those of workers in services and other sectors. Average hourly compensation for manufacturing workers was $24.30 in 2001, compared with $19.74 in service-producing sectors.