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Wintermute  ·  3455 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Democratic Tea Party

    If the US doesn't bring manufacturing back, it will become a decaying, elderly, powerless nation.

The US doesn't need to bring manufacturing back. We are still the largest producer int the world.

That said, I believe (but am too lazy to dig up a source) that high tech manufacturing makes up a very large percentage of our current manufacturing base. It wouldn't be a bad thing if we brought back some of the more general purpose manufacturing.

What are absolutely never coming back though are manufacturing jobs. It's a pipe dream to think that well paid blue collar manufacturing jobs are ever going to return to the US.