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To: xzins
This fails to account for suppliers, transportation, logistics, wholesalers, and support jobs that are necessary for one factory to operate.

We lose all of those, too, when we lose manufacturing jobs.

Your first and second points don't correlate at all. The warehousing and transportation sectors in this country have been booming for years even as the manufacturing sector has moved much of its activity offshore.

How do you think a Wal-Mart store in the Midwest gets all of the products on its shelves?

169 posted on 03/13/2016 7:56:33 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Bye bye, William Frawley!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Dingbat, he is talking about transportation of raw materials and handling of sub assemblies.


170 posted on 03/13/2016 7:57:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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