We’ve lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since 2000. These were high paying middle class jobs.
These jobs are still being done. They are being done in China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, and hundreds of other countries around the globe. Manufacturing has been in relative decline both in the United States and in many other developed nations for years. Its contribution to America’s gross domestic product has decreased from about 25 percent in 1947 to 11 percent in 2009.
American manufacturing employment peaked at 19.6 million in 1979 and has generally been falling ever since.
This has happened due to our trade policies, unions pricing their workers out of competitiveness, decline in vocational programs for training workers, foreigners using currency manipulation to steal our jobs, greedy mega corporations seeking short term profits over long-term sustainablity, and delusional Americans believing that buying cheap shit on credit was the path to wealth.
The end result is that the fastest growing job in America over the last ten years has been FOOD BATCH MAKERS, also known as the guys putting the pickles on Quarter Pounders with Cheese at McDonalds.
At least they can’t outsource that job to India. We’ve got that goin for us.
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Considering that service sector jobs have a higher average wage than manufacturing jobs, I don't think the person who wrote this post knows much of anything.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, US manufacturing output peaked in 2008 and only went down during the recent recession. We still manufacture plenty here.
maybe but the jobs are being done more with robots. if a bot is doing the job no human need apply. jobs are still lost even if manufacturing numbers remain the same.
ReplyDeleteWe manufacture plenty, but we do it with alot less people. Face it, technology has put alot of people out of work and they will stay that way if the remain relatively low skilled. Personally, I think it would be great if someone set up a US citizen migrant worker network to work in the Ag. sector and we kick all the illegals out. These are some of the few jobs you can get if you don't have skills.
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