America makes plenty of things here. Unfortunately, those jobs are never coming back. Even if you shut down every factory in China and moved all of them back here, they’d be so heavily automated that: (1) there would hardly be any impact on the U.S. economy at all, and (2) the jobs gained in manufacturing would be largely offset by job losses in logistics, longshoremen, etc.
I (strongly) disagree.
America needs jobs.
Jobs. We need to bring back US jobs from China and the world.
Now.
I get your point about automation, but even if we went from 4,000 jobs in the past to about 500 today for the same factory, that would still be 500 workers paying taxes into our system and for our military instead of China’s.