[Jim Noble]

allowed American manufacturing workers to “trade up” to more challenging and better-paying work......millions of U.S. jobs are eliminated each year by technology and changing consumer tastes, only to be replaced by new jobs that are being created by the same dynamic forces

Well, since the paper mills and garment factories closed around here, there are lots of new jobs.

Heroin distribution and meth cooking are growing fast. They always need volunteers at the suicide hotline. ER visits are up 50%.

I suppose that's one way to look at things, sure.

[Gaffer]

BLS - Bureau of Lying Statistics.
FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Dissembling.

[central_va]

Trade protectionism certainly didn’t hurt the USA from 1789 to 1913.