Originally Posted by
JCO
That is all caused by the theory created by big business.. We become a service oriented economy and export our manufacturing and expertise overseas.. That is the price to pay for free trade, subsidies to corporations to close NA operations and open up in China, and our hunger to buy cheap even if it kills our own economy..
The truth is that todays manufacturing is mostly automated and is not labour intensive, add to that the shipping costs and we could manufacture in NA at pretty competitive rates.. Issues are more on environmental impacts and short term profits for large corporations.. They also create demand for their products in developing countries because they now have jobs and those employes start purchasing product..