[ffusco]

What is your solution to the continued loss of manufacturing jobs? Heavy subsidies? Tarrifs? State-Owned industry?

The US continues to evolve into an information and services economy. The stategic industrial base has consolidated and should prevail.

[uncitizen]

It is too late for a solution to that problem anymore. The cost of union labor has driven up the cost of manufacturing, therefore it can't compete with that cheap "overseas" labor as you undoubtedly know.

I do understand that the US economy is an info technology and service based one, but those jobs too are being moved out of the country for labor cost reasons.

Pretty soon, nothing but those jobs which require the worker to be physically in the United States of America (e.g. nurses, truck drivers) will be left here.