Those manufacturing jobs are gone because of union greed.
No, they’re gone because manufacturers would rather set up shop someplace where they can pay some 10 year old $1/hour and dump sludge into the nearest body of water. If the comments on this thread represent conservatism’s attitude toward the American worker, then we can expect many more 2012s. Sad.
For most manufactured goods in the USA, labor accounts for less then 10% of the retail price. Off shoring production only saves a few pennies on the dollar. A small tariff of say 5% would raise revenue an offset that. Thomas Jefferson would agree.