19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Make You Weep

http://www.businessinsider.com/deindustrialization-factory-closing-2010-9#the-united-states-has-lost-a-whopping-32-percent-of-its-manufacturing-jobs-since-the-year-2000-13#ixzz1ipWCcyGf ^

[chessplayer]

The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.

The United States has become a nation that consumes everything in sight and yet produces increasingly little.

[Bon mots]

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[Nailbiter]

29. EPA Quasi govt regulation

[muddler]

I was taught, by my grandparents, that you are not defined by what you consume but rather by what you produce.

Where does that leave this country today?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Add punitive taxes and I think you have it covered.

[redgolum]

You can not build an economy on service jobs. For one thing, the places that actually build things will start wanting the “services” there also. You can see that already.

But I am sure that the econ wizards will come along soon and say that we can all sell Toyotas to each other and be rich without any manufacturing base.

[redgolum]

You need to have management in those lists also.

Face it. Things are a two way street. A MBA’s who little common sense killed many a company.

[TheOldLady]

We wish it grew there
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[BobL]

Peace - you’re right.

[Bon mots]