[Bryanw92]

>>Good point about Charlotte, but let’s be realistic. Most of the jobs those people are capable of doing are being automated out of existence, and it has nothing to do with trade policy.

Then, automate! Don’t outsource.

I’ve worked in industrial automation for 35 years. I know the actual reality of what automation means. Do you know what automation requires? Technicians. An army of technicians. People who can go to trade school for 2 years or get some military technical training and they are able to get a good job building, maintaining, operating, and programming automated machinery.

But if you send the assembly line to Asia, then they automate. Their people become automation technicians.

So, yes, automate everything and the USA can be a nation of robot repairmen.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Realistically speaking, between automation and web-based self service technologies, more and more jobs are becoming redundant every day. One robotics tech can maintain robots who do the job of fifty workers with wrenches and spray guns.

Instead of living in a fantasy world where 1950'a assembly lines magically reappear, conservatives should be seriously thinking about how a capitalist economy will look when we can produce everything we produce today, with 30-50 percent less employment.

[Alberta's Child]

But keep in mind that Asia has a huge advantage over the U.S. in one key respect: they have more customers there.

The sad truth is that 300 million people in this country isn't a very big market compared to 2+ billion people in China and India alone. One of the reasons more and more companies are sourcing their production in Asia is that they simply sell more of their products over there now.