[Redbob]

That point isn't made often enough;
As painful as it might be for some, the jobs we're "losing" are the modern equivalents of buggy-whip manufacturing and hand-weaving.

[GingisK]

As painful as it might be for some, the jobs we're "losing" are the modern equivalents of buggy-whip manufacturing and hand-weaving.

Yeah? When buggy whips began obsolete, they didn't start importing them from abroad. Cell phones are still "in", but the engineering is going abroad. Do you want the US to also buy weapons systems from India? (We's get their obsolete ones, you know.)

If the engineering infracstructure is destroyed, the US will not be the ones innovating for the future. Your analogy is not well thought out.