“I know longer recognize America without massive small town manufacturing.”
Manufacturing provided a pathway to a middle class lifestyle for many poorAmericans with limited education. A high school graduate from a dirt poor farm family could go to work in a factory as an unskilled floor sweeper or material handler, be trained to run equipment and eventually rise into management Even the skilled labor jobs provided a middle class living. All it took was ambition, hard work, common sense and some intelligence. A manufacturing plant in a small town also generated middle class jobs in the local community where the workers spent their wages. Trickle down economics was real.
Drive through these towns off the interstate highways today and see the devastating economic impact of three decades of purposeful deindustrialization.
Tyson pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa just closed & put almost 2,000 out of work. Town is about 7,000 population.
MAYTAG operated out of NEWTON, IOWA, for YEARS.
THEN WHIRLPOOL bought Maytag & CLOSED the plant.
“WHIRLPOOL” Maytags are junk.
GLAD I GOT MINE BEFORE THIS HAPPENED.
The thing that totally gets me, the media hyped de industrialization, like it was something wonderful! They said we are now an information society! And, the media never paid paid any price for spreading this harmful narrative to the American public. And, some people were dumb enough to believe the media! They were not exposed for the propagandists that they are,back then.