what percentage of Boeing aricraft come in as subassemblies from foreign countries? will that percentage increase, or decrease, in the coming years? ask yourself the same question regarding auto manufacturing. how long then, before Boeing's US operations simply consist of executives, management, and sales and marketing? you can apply the same to HP, blowing their white collar technology staffs away, already having moved manufacturing offshore. Great for them, great for their stockholders - and the workers who rely on Boeing and HP for their middle class jobs?
""what percentage of Boeing aricraft come in as subassemblies from foreign countries?""
What percent of airbus, toyota, mercedes, nissan, Komatsu is made in the USA???
EADS has a large planet at the mobile airport, all the above mentioned companies have large and growing facilites in the Southern USA. Being a Southern, I dont subscribe to your "manufacturing is dying" BS