[Alberta's Child]

I've said for years that manufacturing in the U.S. is very strong -- and will continue to be strong for a long time.

However, this does not mean that manufacturing employment is strong, or is ever going to be strong again. The biggest factor in the decline of U.S. manufacturing jobs was never foreign competition, but automation. The days of having a massive manufacturing facility with several thousand employees who walk to work from the surrounding town are over -- and this will be for good, until we have some kind of "Year Zero" type of armageddon and we go back to the Stone Age to start all over again.

We have simply reached a point in human history where human labor and the human mind are actually the weakest links in any complex process -- whether it be producing widgets or flying an airplane.

[AceMineral]

The truth. Few want it.

[Olog-hai]

Explain why we have a colossal trade deficit and why our war machines are being built overseas for the second time in history.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

The biggest factor in the decline of U.S. manufacturing jobs was never foreign competition, but automation. The days of having a massive manufacturing facility with several thousand employees who walk to work from the surrounding town are over -- and this will be for good, until we have some kind of "Year Zero" type of armageddon and we go back to the Stone Age to start all over again.

Unmitigated bullcrap. The worlds #1 trading nation, Red China, has the most advanced manufacturing facilities in the world. So much so that the US doesn't even have the capability to produce the high end electronics that are made there. There are tens of thousands that work at the Foxconn factories making Apple products. The number of Red Chinese workers involved just in manufacturing is four times the number of ALL the workers in the US.

This "automation" canard is just part of the conjob Free Traitors have used to move US manufacturing to Red China and other Third World pits. Free Traitors have ruined this country and deserve to be sent to the gallows.

This is what high tech manufacturing that used to be done in the US has allowed Red China to accomplish.