You're mixing up the results of ignorant welfare policies with outsourcing. Williams states in the article that only 13% of manufacturing job losses were because of foreign outsourcing. The remaining were lost by productivity gains. The increased productivity provides the income to pay for the welfare programs. It's the ignorant Democrat policies that actually put them in place.
In any case what we DON’T enjoy now is equivalent numbers of Americans employed at “better”, more efficient, higher skilled jobs producing higher technology goods that the world would demand. My guess is that we probably would have if not for the interference of our own gummint in the markets.
Williams is full of it. We have lost 55,000 and 12,000,000 manufacturing jobs since 2002.