40 years of destroying our own manufacturing base will have that effect.
this is rich - the Presient f a Siemens group told a customer to pound sand when his products shut down a hospital...because their software did not work. Gemans send business to American because they can’t fire anyone for any reason. They have not added a single engineering position in the entire country in the last 10 years...all hires are at the American branches.
“40 years of destroying our own manufacturing base will have that effect.”
Amen brother. The USA needed PATRIOTS in Congress and White House and instead we have Free Traitors that purposely sold out the USA to make lucrative markets for Wall Street and former USA, but now trans national corporations with allegiance only to their CEO bonus and international shareholders.
When the biggest USA employer is now Wal-Mart the skills and money aren’t there.
You assume that the manufacturing base was destroyed. Part of it was not destroyed, it was abandoned as uncompetitive. It was simply not required.
You assume that the world stands still and everything remains the same. The world of trade is dynamic, not static. Change is constant, the only constant.
The fact is the world did not stand still. The world entered the quest for better life and competed. Parts of American industry were bloated and over regulated and could not compete in the manufacture of many things. The work was lost to those who can make things at a lower price.
America still has a strong manufacturing base. That base is dependent on brains and skills and technology. The combination of those elements means that the labor required to produce is less than before. That change is called productivity increase. We make more with less labor.