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Your creeds on bringing back factories reminds me of Willie Green, a Freeper who used to constantly post about bringing back the railroads and trains. You are both talking about bringing back 19th or 20th century technology.

It's not going to happen and the unions and our government have seen to that. There is no way that companies like Apple or Google are going to build their smartphones and tablets here in the United States where they have to deal with pinky-ringed union thugs and a government that will be hell-bent on legislating and litigating them out of business under a blizzard of regulations and lawsuits.

Those factories you speak of are gone forever. They are never coming back, at least until robotics advance enough where humans are no longer required to work in them.

The blue-collar factories jobs are officially extinct and they only exist in Bruce Springsteen songs and in PBS documentaries. No more Laverne & Shirley stamping caps on beer bottles in Milwaukee. No more, no more.

These days, you get a white collar job or a job in the service industry. You don't necessary need to work in Walmart or at a McDonalds but you can still get a plumbing or electrician license and make a decent living in the trades if blue-collar work really appeals to you.

Forget about the factories though. They are NEVER coming back.

Never.

There’s no alternative to not bringing them back. National security depends on it (that’s why countries like Russia, Germany, Red China et al hold on to their manufacturing sectors with vehemence). They don’t come back, kiss the country goodbye.

(Of course, their absence can be interpreted as a curse.)

“There is no way that companies like Apple or Google are going to build their smartphones and tablets here in the United States where they have to deal with pinky-ringed union thugs and a government that will be hell-bent on legislating and litigating them out of business under a blizzard of regulations and lawsuits. “

Exactly; it’s just not happening.

They’re never coming back and they don’t have to. Going back here to the US would be like an abused wife going back to her abuser, pure stupidity after being informed of all the realities of what going back would be like.