Well, what do we expect if we keep buying cheap and mostly inferior clothes, cars and whatever the east wants to dump on our doorstep? We have lost our ability to innovate and to manufacture. Essentially the country is bankrupt as we import more than we export.
Manufacturing is a locus for creating jobs as any factory needs supporting industries such as transport, power, accounting, HR, infrastructure and technicians to maintain it (even machines need to be built and maintained). The USA has re-invested in manufacturing and is bringing a number of outsourced operations back on shore, with good results. Manufacturing is now fuelling their economic revival.
Time to support local manufacturing and home grown goods!
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