[Toddsterpatriot]

That is a fallacy. We do not have the equipmwent to manufacture many goods, we sold it overseas.

BS. We manufacture more than any other country.

We no longer have the skilled tool and die makers or the equipment in any quantity to develop the machinery to manufacture goods.

BS again. What goods do you think it would be impossible for us to manufacture in America again? Be as specific as you can.

[Chickensoup]

We do not manufacture more consumer goods than other countries.

Try weaving, you have to build looms, try shoes, very few left, most of the equipment is overseas. We have sold tons of capital equipment and moved it overseas or to mexico.

I will have to find the book I read recently about capital equpment flight to other countries and the fact that we do not have the trained workforce we had fifty years ago

We could never replicate the manufacturing miracle with did with WWII

[matthew fuller]

For an amusing look at the opinion from Heritage Foundation on outsourcing jobs dated April Fool's day, 2004, check this out:http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/wm467.cfm