IndianHawk
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Agreed.Consider China is losing manufacturing jobs to Vietnam Cambodia at 1/3 or 1/4 wages, and perhaps India.
Would Americans like jobs for a meagre $$$ in labor-intensive footwear or garment ind.? Even a trade war with China only results in shift of purchase to other foreign manufacture from China. How would that help create jobs for Americans?
There's "cheap labor" in abundance from Mexico just next door, and NAFTA, and millions of illegal Mexican immigrants. But competitive?
What is gone is gone?!
That is why I pointed that only automation can work and that too can only bring limited change. Jobs for Americans can only come from more service intensive approach .
Meanwhile USA is still world leader in innovation and that can transform manufacturing in the coming decades too.