[Antoninus]

Since 2001, the United States has lost 2.8 million manufacturing jobs. Hello! Is anybody listening? This is a crisis.

Is it me or does this kind of talk only surface during election years when Republicans are in office? Did the "giant sucking sound" disappear suddenly in 1992 only to mysteriously return in 2004? I don't think so.

And based on their coddling of the radical homosexual cultural terrorists, the "giant sucking sound" is most likely coming from the headquarter of the DNC...

[sfwarrior]

No it has reappeared just in time for the elections. What's happened is that the rate of outsourcing of IT jobs and other white collar jobs to places like India has accelerated to millions per year, and no one is talking about it as a crisis. Or don't you think it is. Remember the white collar jobs were supposed to replace those industrial factory jobs that were already closing due to outsourcing and no one cared about.

[ninenot]

It is true that the Dimowits and their stooges in the Press are suddenly tuned to this problem...

But the manufacturing economy in the Upper Midwest actually stopped dead in its tracks about mid-2000, and has not yet recovered.