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You can't have a whole country that only produces service jobs. You have to have a strong manufacturing base. It seems like we are producing a generation of massage therapists instead of engineers.
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Chris! Well said!
You are spot on. Manufacturing is what made this country
great. All of a sudden, in the 1980's manufacturing became
a dirty word and most of the engineers I knew wanted to get an
MBA so they could advance into management. That was the
start of the spiral downward. The Clinton's all but drove
the stake in with this NAFTA crap. Remember all the
about
retraining the workforce to do other things? Well, what
happened? Many manufacturing jobs went south, but they
weren't replaced with jobs of a commensurate level. As a
matter of fact, most of those jobs flat out disappeared.