I’m referring to the kind of folks around here who don’t have a sock mill to park their butts in while they grow fat and old. None of them were union. That probably kept the mills around here open a decade longer.
We can still compete in manufacturing, but only with innovation and automation. Whenever you hear someone cry, “Nothing is made in America anymore,” they really mean there aren’t as many unskilled labor jobs for dropouts and dummies. If people really want things to be made in America, it’s going to be made by efficient machines; designed, installed, and maintained by intelligent, educated people.
My grammar skills seem to go to pot after 10pm.