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.
Expect a lot more of these type articles it’s all they have. It will fail like everything else they try
Where there is some truth to what you say, all of these manufactured products we sell (aside from the petroleum products) are chock full of Chinese and other foreign components. It would be more accurate to say that we are leaders in "assembling" but not necessarily "manufacturing."
The question is whether the US is self-sufficient in a time of war (with, oh, I don't know, ...China?)
And the answer is a resounding NO.
Too many of the components and raw materials come from the Chicoms.
And they absorb/steal as many trade secrets as they can.
But that's ok, because you're swamp dwellers, right?
No, you are just an idiot. Thanks for playing.
I see a lot of abandoned heavy industry here in the midwest. Where do you suppose it went?
You’re good at numbers... but you don’t have any sense of living in the real world where men and women lost jobs and their retirement, when they closed factories. Buildings that were used for manufacturing, closed.. and did not reopen. If something is made in the U S, they have a sign that says so... it’s that rare. Clothing is made overseas.. and poorly made. Our cotton factories closed... the fabric I buy is made overseas when we have cotton here.... and it’s not less expensive. What used to be $2.99 a yard 20+ years ago, is now $12.99 and up.
You quote numbers but it does not reflect what IS... it’s not impressive to go by someone’s numbers that are not correct in real life. ANYTHING made overseas does not compare to what we used to produce here in our own land.
And it’s time we make our own and buy our own.