[trubluolyguy]

I love these stories trying to convince us that bad things are actually good, that up is white, that black is thursday!

I bet the author of this piece cannot even balance his own checkbook.

[Alberta's Child]

If you can find any indication that Americans are worse off today than they were 25, 50, 75, or 100 years ago, please enlighten us.

What the author of this article doesn't mention is that the primary factor in the "loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs" has nothing to do with outsourcing, labor costs, automation, productivity, etc.

The single biggest reason for all of these "lost jobs" has been the manner in which these jobs are counted. U.S. employment by economic sector has traditionally been listed according to the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) classification of the employer, not the type of employment. General Motors, for example, is considered an auto manufacturer -- so all of their employees at any given location were classified as "manufacturing employees" regardless of their job function.

So if General Motors decided one day to lay off all their accountants and hire an outside accounting firm instead, these accounting jobs were magically transformed from "manufacturing" to "service" jobs -- even if the accounting firm hired all of the former GM accountants to do the work.

[rcocean]

You miss the whole point. The writer - like most of the chattering classes - is not effected by globalization. Hence, the enthusiasm.

Most people who try to convince us that massive trade deficits, massive illegal immigration, and outsourcing of manufacturing jobs BENEFIT from it some way.

They put us propaganda to convince everyone else its a good thing.