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No, they’re gone because manufacturers would rather set up shop someplace where they can pay some 10 year old $1/hour and dump sludge into the nearest body of water. If the comments on this thread represent conservatism’s attitude toward the American worker, then we can expect many more 2012s. Sad.

Exactly...These people don't seem to realize that without good paying jobs for the masses, they would have sewers running thru their front yards...And what roads would they have to drive on???

And what one of these nuts would think they could take a plane flight to anywhere when the working people can no longer afford a plane ticket???

The unions created the wage and benefit structure that forced the non union companies to become competitive with their wages and benefits to find and keep employees, which ultimately became the American middle class...

As the American wages for the working middle class skyrockets, so does the 'educated' class of engineers and their like...In fact, there are so many 'educated' engineers working for McDonalds that these kinds of threads are getting funnier by the day...