Making other countries the boogeyman allows the liberals to kill industrial employment while at the very same time also blaming industry for not hiring.
Folks, we cannot even keep hamburger flippers employed and freshly prepared hamburgers do not face foreign imports. Hamburger flipping is getting so costly even the illegals are finding it hard to get to compete against the robots.
Bunk.
This article is a one-sided puff piece.
There is a lot of manufacturing. In China. China now leads America in exports, yet this entire article seems to pretend they’re not even a country.
This article is complete nonsense.
That doesn't make sense. Silly sophistry.
How much better would American manufacturing be wig the 55,000 factories closed since 2001 had stayed open?
wig = if
Lets import another 10 million refugees, legal and illegals per year. That should fix it.
And yet when have you ever heard anybody say that "America just doesn’t grow anything anymore"? The fact that we frequently hear that "America just doesn’t manufacture or produce anything anymore" isn't consistent with the reality that US factories produce more output today than at any time in US history.
The difference here is that Americans have been conditioned to believe that employers hiring massive numbers of people to work in factories is the norm, and that we have some kind of God-given right to a job regardless of whether it makes any financial sense at all.
The simple truth is that nobody has a right to a job. If you can't produce enough with your efforts to make your job profitable for your employer, then your employer will figure out how to get things done without you.
The article doesn’t take into account that 12 million manufacturing jobs were lost since 2001.
Engineering, with ever increasing specialization.
“The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future....” —The Aviator
Agriculture and manufacturing are not related at all. To mix the two together shows a lack of basic economic understanding and simplistic thinking.
Even if Apple or Dell wanted to move their factories here they couldn’t. The feds wouldn’t allow it. There would be shakedowns from labor unions.
Did you breeze right past the part of the article that talked about state of the art equipment, greater productivity, and higher levels of automation? Are you blaming government agencies for that?
we should have a one good story out of 6 policy :)
one can get disheartened.
the black guy beating up the KKK guy at the Trump rally was a good one :)
for the record, there are more people at fast food establishments employed in sales than production
the way to improve the number of working people is to grow the economy. those that whine about bringing jobs home are never going to see those jobs return. If there are new jobs it will be the result of new business and new products.
it is possible that some might be repatriated but it will be with new manufacturing technology. We will likely never manufacture paint brushes again. we will likely not make cotton yarn and T shirts again on the scale we once did. we will likely never make steel on the level we did. .
the world, especially the young people’s world is a very competitive place. Whining about what was is losing proposition. Only donald Trump has a grasp of not only what is but what must be