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This article is mostly bull feces.

First, American labor is overpowered.

Yes, I said American labor is overpowered in our economy. We overprotect our workers with laws that protect the laziest and the most careless.

Tax policy has driven corporations from Northeast states into Southeast and Midwest states.

Other tax laws allow/encurage corporations to move offshore.

Comliance with regulations without purpose keep productivity down.

Our legal system is the single-most detrimental factor in moving jobs and industries overseas. Companies do not want to manufacture in a climate of fear where laws do not apply or protect industry since legislation can be made from the judicial bench.

Even if we did everything the above article suggests, the differential in labor wages would still act as an incentive to move manufacturing overseas.

The answer is simply a continuing increase in productivity.

Automation is far more reliable, offers higher quality and lower costs than the lowest wage nations overseas.

More automated industries allow employees to seek employment in higher-skilled areas such as engineering, maintenance, etc.

Frankly, if your job is to pick up a nut and put it onto a bolt, you are a drag on our economy.

By pushing for higher technology in industry, we will reduce worksite injuries, worker's compensations insurance rates, and allow for a workforce that can seek higher meaning in their lives than menial labor tasks.

Frankly, if your job is to pick up a nut and put it onto a bolt, you are a drag on our economy.

Frankly, if your job can be done more cheaply in a foreign country, you are a drag on our economy.

Same reasoning.

What industry are you in?

The answer is simply a continuing increase in productivity.
Automation is far more reliable, offers higher quality and lower costs than the lowest wage nations overseas.
More automated industries allow employees to seek employment in higher-skilled areas such as engineering, maintenance, etc.

False assumption.
Automation is not a panacea.
The high investment cost of automating domestic manufacturing is undermined by imports in many ways.

In many instances, lower cost technology implemented offshore can match quality requirements.
Automated technology can also be used offshore, undercutting the cost of skilled technicians, maintenance and support personnel required to operate it domesticly.
In both of the above instances, additional investment in support technology necessary for safety and/or environmental compliance is unnecessary.

You fail to comprehend that it IS the automated super-technology manufacturing leaving our shores.

As just one example: Steel production in the US is among the most automated capital-intensive in the world. Not even the Japanese eclipse us there. Yet we will lose our industry despite our superior productivity...and then the steel market prices here will balloon.

This will be replicated in every industry you can name.

Comliance with regulations without purpose keep productivity down.

Which regulations actually do this?

More automated industries allow employees to seek employment in higher-skilled areas such as engineering, maintenance, etc.

It only takes a couple of engineers to design a plant and there is only about one maintenance worker for every 20 - 30 production workers. How does that replace the workforce?

Frankly, if your job is to pick up a nut and put it onto a bolt, you are a drag on our economy.

Nice sentiment to your fellow Americans.

By pushing for higher technology in industry, we will reduce worksite injuries, worker's compensations insurance rates, and allow for a workforce that can seek higher meaning in their lives than menial labor tasks.

All of this does nothing to help people find jobs. Have you been watching Star Trek looking forward to their utopian society where we are all one nation on this planet? Human nature is always such that there are people who cannot be engineers and doctors and lawyers and such. What will competent, yet less intelligent people do for a living? Are you willing to provied them a job?