STRAW MAN ARGUMENT! We are bleeding the best jobs now not the "crap" jobs that were vital to blue collar Americans survival. Those jobs were sold down the river last decade. While promises were made they would be replaced by hi tech jobs of the future.
Meanwhile the trade deficits yawn wider each year. That's what happens when you ship jobs abroad.
Well, that's an interesting point but USUALLY when I hear complaints of this type, the person IS complaining about loss of "Manufacturing Jobs".
One could spend an entire day just reading the articles on FR which come up when you search for the word "manufacturing".
I'm glad that you, personally, are not as fixated on "Manufacturing Jobs" as so many others seem to be. That's great!
Those jobs were sold down the river last decade. While promises were made they would be replaced by hi tech jobs of the future.
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I'm getting confused as to exactly which jobs you're talking about exactly. I know from your post that they are "the best jobs", whatever they are, but that they're not "Manufacturing Jobs" (otherwise my post wouldn't have been a STRAW MAN ARGUMENT). But then "those jobs" (the "best" ones, which aren't Manufacturing) were outsourced. And then (someone - who??) "promised" (promised?? there's no "promise" in economics) that "those jobs" (whatever they are..) would be "replaced" by "hi tech jobs of the future".
So "the best jobs", whatever they are/were, weren't "hi tech jobs" OR "Manufacturing Jobs"? What kind of jobs were they?
Telemarketing/telephone call centers?
Meanwhile the trade deficits yawn wider each year. That's what happens when you ship jobs abroad.
Yup those trade deficits keep me up at night. I just hate all the ways they affect my life negatively.