[LS]

Right. People need to understand that the U.S. from the BEGINNING has been, because of the availability of land, a high wage nation that CONSTANTLY sought to replace labor with machines. This was as true with Whitney's mass production and the Slater Mills as it is today with robots and scanners. This has in the past constantly pushed us to higher skills and education.

Instead of blaming the "decline of manufacturing," we need to blame the collapse of liberalism, particularly public education, in leaving behind a couple of generations of people who don't have the job skills to compete for the high-wage jobs in whatever field.

[RaceBannon]

I dont think it is education.

We had a thread like this 4 years ago, I bookmarked it on why free trade was never the answer

It aint education, and it isn’t just the sending of jobs overseas, it does have some profit motive with greed, but much has to do with corporate survival to compete against those who went overseas while you sayed here to remain patriotic, only to move yourself overseas to keep your corporation afloat!