"Manufacturing what ? TV, VCRs, DVD player, computers ? How many of these things are manufactured in America anymore ?"
Don't like it? Start a business and quit complaining.
You talk an incredible amount of nonsense.
Any job done in front of a computer can be outsourced so it is fundamentally stupid to babble about 'get a new skill'. If outsourcing and globalization and open borders are the inexhorable wave of the future then the tides of history are just plain against the American worker and his standard of living will inevitably sink to Third World levels. God did not give Americans some magical smarts that he did not give to any other nation on this planet.
Only a fool 'competes' in a rigged game. Your simple brained 'can do' optimism is no match for the tides of history. Carried to your level it is just moronic wishful thinking. The only response is by Americans banding together to reverse the 'tides of history'. To demand that the game be rigged in your favor instead of against you. The alternative is to 'compete' in who will work longer for less.