You still haven't addressed the point that 87 percent of manufacturing job losses have been caused by productivity improvements. This is strike three.
“According to a recent study by the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University, productivity growth caused 85 percent of the job losses in manufacturing from 2000 to 2010, a period that saw 5.6 million factory jobs disappear.”
That’s an assertion by one source, not proof. That you can’t tell the difference says it all.