[gooleyman]

Ah--about 2 million jobs were lost from the domestic manufacturing sector in the last 4-5 years.

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Ah--I though we were talking about Engineering jobs. I knew that statistic. That's been bandied about for months.

NO MATTER, My solution still stands and I quote my last comment:

"If indeed these jobs have been exported, lower taxes and regulations drastically and they too will come back.

A lot of ills can be cured by those two actions. I have to add that expenditures MUST also be cut drastically so we can payoff the MONSTER National Debt that is looming large. None of our current politicians wants to even acknowledge it but it's going to bite us eventually.

[Paul Ross]

I have to add that expenditures MUST also be cut drastically so we can payoff the MONSTER National Debt that is looming large. None of our current politicians wants to even acknowledge it but it's going to bite us eventually.

The budget deficit is a legitimate problem. But not in the issue of manufactures. This position of yours prompted me to remember someone else's post who also pointed out something contrary to such assumptions--even though the U.S. national budgetary deficit was reduced and went into the surplus column during Clinton's presidencey...this same problem of manufacturing decline and the trade deficit ballooning was unabated during his terms. Based on your position, the trade deficit should have abated during the latter Clinton years. It did not. Instead it continued to grow.