What manufacturing? You free traders/open border types killed that decades ago.
“What manufacturing? You free traders/open border types killed that decades ago.”
I’ll pay more to get jobs back. A person who thinks that the current status quo is ok isn’t seeing the full picture of what “free trade” costs us each year.
Are you intentionally lying, or are you simply that stupid?
Yes, China became the leading manufacturing economy in the world in 2010, but the United States maintains a strong second-place standing. The value added by U.S. factories is more than $2 trillion a year, equal to the next three countries (Japan, Germany and South Korea) combined. U.S. manufacturing is still the envy of the world.
Gross output of U.S. manufacturing industries — counting products produced for final use as well as those used as intermediate inputs — totaled $6.2 trillion in 2015, about 36% of U.S. gross domestic product, nearly double the output of any of the other big sectors: professional and business services, government and real estate. Today, U.S. factories produce twice as much stuff as they did in 1984, but with one-third fewer workers.
Now, if you want to say that manufacturing JOBS are down, that's true... but output is at record levels, and still #2 in the world, only behind a nation with 4 times the population and 1/10 the labor and government compliance costs.
Our top manufactured products are refined oil (including gasoline, fuel oil, jet fuel, and liquefied refinery gases), light trucks, pharmaceuticals, airplanes, automobiles, iron, steel, animal slaughtering, plastics, organic chemicals and petrochemicals. Yes, clothing, trinkets, and household goods are now made elsewhere. We make the big expensive stuff, the technological stuff, the medical stuff, and the chemical stuff... and lots and lots and lots of food. U.S. Manufacturing is NOT dead, Jim.
Bingo. The only thing that makes those money grubbers happy is how much money they can make off the backs of unemployed American workers by way of communist/socialist backed/subsidized countries using slave wage labor, forced in some cases in order to sell their products in America and other capitalist based economies thus causing much economic harm but the Free Traders could care less about the people that gets harmed by their greedy practices. Go President Trump, bring back the jobs and keep restoring Americas manufacturing greatness.